Gemini Spark browser agent expands to more than 160 countries
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Google's Gemini Spark AI agent now works in over 160 more countries for Pro subscribers, plus it can browse Chrome for you. It'll use your saved logins to book flights or schedule apartment tours, but it hands payments back to you first.
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Google just handed its Gemini Spark agent a much bigger passport and a new set of hands. Starting today, Google AI Pro subscribers in more than 160 additional countries get access to Spark, the assistant designed to chew through tedious digital chores on your behalf. That's a serious expansion in reach, and it comes bundled with a feature that changes what Spark can actually do once it's in your browser.
The headline addition is direct Chrome integration, something Google is calling auto browse. With permission, Spark can now tap into your logged-in accounts and saved passwords to run errands that used to require you to sit there clicking through tabs yourself. Scheduling a viewing for an apartment you'd bookmarked, or digging through flight options and kicking off the booking flow — these are the examples Google points to. It's the kind of grunt work nobody enjoys but everybody has to do eventually.
Google is clearly aware that letting an AI agent loose with your saved credentials is a nervous proposition. The company says it's built in protections against prompt injection attacks, the trick where malicious instructions hidden in a webpage try to hijack an agent's behavior. And for anything genuinely sensitive, like an actual payment, Spark stops and kicks the task back to the user rather than pushing the transaction through on its own.
One catch worth flagging: the Chrome auto browse feature is only rolling out in the U.S. for now. Google says more regions are coming, but no timeline was given. So the country expansion and the new browsing powers aren't quite the same rollout — most of those 160-plus newly added countries get broader Spark access, not necessarily the Chrome errand-running trick just yet.
Still, pairing wider availability with a genuinely new capability signals Google isn't treating Spark as a static product. It's iterating fast, and the choice to gate payments behind human approval suggests some lessons have already been learned about where users draw the line on autonomy.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
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