Hi Dotikers!

Google just released CC, an experimental AI agent powered by Gemini. The concept is straightforward: you give it access to your Gmail, Calendar and Drive, and every morning it sends you an email called "Your Day Ahead" that summarizes your day. Inside you'll find your appointments, important tasks, upcoming deadlines, bills to pay. Basically everything that deserves your attention.

But CC doesn't just summarize. It can also take action: draft emails, create calendar events, remember ideas or tasks you mention to it. To give it instructions, you simply reply to its emails or share your preferences over time. The idea is that it learns about you and becomes increasingly relevant.

What's interesting here is that we're finally moving beyond the passive chatbot that just answers questions. CC is one of the first concrete examples of a "consumer-facing" AI agent that has access to your personal data and can execute actions on your behalf. This is exactly the direction everyone has been announcing for months (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft) but Google is the first to ship something tangible for the average consumer.

For now it's very limited: only available in the United States and Canada, you need to be at least 18, have a personal Google account, and most importantly a Google AI Ultra subscription or another paid service. And even with all that, you end up on a waitlist.

The obvious concern: giving an AI full access to your emails, calendar and files raises serious security questions. Researchers have already demonstrated that Gemini can be manipulated via hidden prompts in calendar events. Imagine someone sending you an invitation with malicious instructions buried inside. Google will need to lock this down before rolling out the product more broadly. Worth keeping an eye on.

Alex.