If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
TL;DR
For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change, thanks largely to the viral open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw. And among the top AI labs now chasing similar success, one seems particularly well-poised to make agents succeed at a large scale: Google.
Nauti's Take
Opportunity is tangible: I/O 2026 signals that useful AI agents for inbox, calendar and event planning are finally arriving at scale — real progress after years of promises. Risk: background agents constantly reading along create a huge data surface, and security, prompt injection and privacy are not yet mature.
Practically smart: test use cases early, but only connect sensitive accounts like finance or client mail once audit logs and permissions are genuinely solid.
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