Google is rolling out Gemini Spark, a new 24/7 AI agent that works across Gmail, Docs, and the rest of Google Workspace. At the company’s I/O 2026 conference, Spark was revealed as a personal assistant that can actually perform tasks, not just answer questions. It runs in the cloud on Google’s infrastructure, so it stays up if your laptop or phone is unavailable.
What Gemini Spark Does Inside Google Workspace
Gemini Spark can connect directly to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and other Workspace apps, and navigate between them independently. The tool may scan your inbox and Docs for updates related to the project, then draft a status email with the relevant details for your management. It might also scan your email for major client issues and highlight or react to them, which Google believes might help smaller teams manage support more effectively.
Moreover, users can teach Spark to handle recurring tasks, such as spotting hidden fees in bills or summarizing long email threads into a brief. Because it lives inside Workspace, it can also create reports in Docs from meeting notes, then write an email in Gmail to share the report with your team. Google says Spark will expand to more third‑party apps over time, including services for design, bookings, and shopping.
How Google Handles Control and Safety
Spark uses Google’s latest Gemini 3.5 model and runs as an “agentic” system, which means it can plan and string tasks together without constant prompts. That extra power raises safety concerns, so Google built a control system called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to limit what Spark can do with money.
Today, users must approve spending and other high‑risk activities, and Spark keeps a record of transactions to support refunds or disputes.
Google also stresses that Spark is opt-in and that users can choose which apps it can access within their account. The company plans to bring Spark into the Gemini desktop app this summer so the agent can work with local files and browser tasks as well. Google is rolling Gemini Spark out first to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the United States, with wider access expected after this initial test phase.
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