Google will launch a proactive agent at I/O this week.

· Bits and Bobs 5/18/26
  • Google will launch a proactive agent at I/O this week.
    • Of course, it won't be private.
      • It will be what an advertising company thinks is best for you.
      • That must,fundamentally, be a conflict of interest.
    • But I imagine the bigger problem is that it won't be open-ended.
    • It will be a handful of top-down features designed by PMs to be generally useful.
    • Google always has the tension between hyper-bespoke features that are actually useful to people… or features that are broad but not deep.
      • One-size-fits-none features that can theoretically be used by 10's of millions of users.
    • Another way is to grow the features bottom up, where the situated actions of savvy users accumulates value that can then help other people, too.
    • Fractically vertical use cases.

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