Google Gives Gemini Agents A Mailbox, Calendar And Directory Seat

At its Gemini at Work event on October 8, Google Cloud announced “coworker agents” that each receive a Workspace account with email, calendar, Drive storage and a company directory listing, so colleagues can delegate work to them. The agents run persistently for up to seven days, can spawn sub-agents with scoped cryptographic identities, and are routed across Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, with admins able to cap AI spend. Private preview is free for Gemini Enterprise customers; pricing and general availability were not announced. Early adopters include On, Shopify and PayPal.

Reported by: AI Weekly

Norm's Take

Your newest employee never sleeps, never quits, and answers to no one.

Before agents get a mailbox and a directory seat, decide:

  1. Who can delegate to themAgents can run for up to seven days and spawn sub-agents of their own.
  2. What they can seeEmail, calendar, Drive and directory access belong in your identity and audit architecture.
  3. Who signs off on a second vendorSmart Routing can send your data to Anthropic’s Claude as well as Gemini.

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