Google expands CC into a shared AI agent for up to six family members
Google LLC today opened its experimental artificial intelligence agent CC to families, with as many as six people in a household able to share one.
Each member picks what the agent is allowed to see, and CC sorts through that material into a shared daily brief, calendar entries and a running task list. The brief goes out each morning under the name “Your Day Ahead.” School notices, practice schedules and vet reminders normally sit in one parent’s inbox, and Google said pooling them lets the household see who has to be where and what CC already dealt with the day before.
The agent also has a verified Google account of its own. Google Labs said that gives CC a distinct identity when it turns up in a member’s inbox or a chat thread, and a clearer place to hold what each person has agreed to share.
Senders can be put on an auto-share list, which routes everything from a school or an airline to CC from then on, and each member gets a private weekly rundown of new senders to approve or ignore. A one-off item can be forwarded by email or through Google Chat, including a photograph of a birthday invitation or a soccer schedule. Drive folders and calendars can be shared with the agent directly.
CC writes dates and to-dos into a family calendar or task list and keeps them current as plans move. Registration and permission slip PDFs can be pre-filled, and the agent will also build a school supply list or draft a week of meals, asking for details it does not already hold. What it picks up goes into a shared household memory or a private one, depending on whether it applies to everyone or to a single person.
Tom Shane, senior product manager at Google Labs, wrote in a blog post announcing the change that “one of our top user requests was for CC to do more to help run a busy home.” He said the coordination gets harder when the information is spread across separate accounts.
Every CC runs on its own isolated cloud computer, built on Antigravity, Google’s agentic harness for developers, and on the company’s latest Gemini models. The setup lets the agent open a registration form, pull live drive times from Google Maps between back-to-back activities, or create a shared Doc or Sheet.
Google said CC responds only to group members and will not act outside the group or pass anything beyond it without permission.
The agent began in December as a single-user product that emailed a daily briefing built from Gmail, Calendar and Drive. Google moved it into the Gemini app in May under the name Daily Brief. The household version is running on web and mobile in the U.S. for people 18 and older with a personal Google account. Existing users will get an email in the coming days about upgrading, and everyone else goes on a waitlist.
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