Gemini Spark browser agent expands to more than 160 countries
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Google's Gemini Spark can now click around inside Chrome for you, using your logins and saved passwords to run errands. It's also live for Pro subscribers in 160+ more countries, so way more people just got an AI that can browse the web on their behalf.
Google just gave its Gemini Spark assistant a set of hands. Starting today, Spark plugs directly into Chrome, meaning it can use your logged-in accounts and saved passwords to actually go do things online rather than just tell you how to do them. Think scheduling an apartment viewing from a listing you saved, or poking around flight options and kicking off a booking. That's a meaningful jump from chatbot-that-answers-questions to agent-that-acts-on-your-behalf.
Google is being careful about how far it lets Spark run. The company says it's built in defenses against prompt injection, the trick where malicious text on a webpage tries to hijack an AI agent's instructions, and it hands control back to you for anything sensitive, like actually paying for something. So Spark can browse, click, and fill in forms, but it won't quietly swipe your credit card without a nod from you first.
For now, the Chrome auto-browse feature is US-only. Google says it plans to expand to other regions, but didn't put a date on it, which is the usual pattern for these rollouts: launch domestically, watch what breaks, then go global once the edge cases are sorted.
The access expansion is the bigger number here. Gemini Spark is now available to Google AI Pro subscribers in more than 160 additional countries, a pretty aggressive push to get an agentic browsing tool in front of as many paying users as possible, well before the actual Chrome integration follows them there. It's a classic Google move: ship the audience first, ship the feature second.
My take
An AI agent using your saved passwords to browse the web on autopilot is exactly the kind of feature that sounds great in a product demo and terrifying the first time it books the wrong flight or clicks the wrong button on a site full of dark patterns. Google gating payments behind human approval is the right instinct, but rolling this out to 160+ countries while the actual safety-tested version stays US-only tells you where the real caution lives. I'd rather they moved slower on both fronts than fast on access and cautious on capability.
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