{"id":4244,"date":"2026-03-12T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/4244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:15:09","slug":"geminis-task-automation-is-here-and-its-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/4244\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini\u2019s task automation is here and it\u2019s wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">A couple of weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/884210\/google-gemini-samsung-s26-pixel-10-uber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google and Samsung announced a big Gemini development<\/a> coming to their newest devices: task automation. Starting with food delivery and rideshare apps, Gemini would be able to use certain apps on your behalf in a virtual window to take care of things like ordering dinner or getting a car to the airport \u2014 all based on simple prompts. You know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/884703\/google-samsung-galaxy-s26-gemini-apple-siri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all the stuff that we\u2019ve been promised<\/a> for years AI assistants will be able to do. That feature wasn\u2019t live when I first started testing the S26 Ultra, but it just arrived in beta as part of an update. And boy is it weird watching your phone use itself!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The first prompt I gave it was pretty simple: order an Uber to the airport. Gemini asked for clarification to determine which airport (a good question to ask!), then it went through a couple of steps on its own: adding the destination and opting to skip the step where you specify your airline, which doesn\u2019t really matter at my local airport since it\u2019s all in one terminal. As promised, the system stopped before the final step and prompted me to review the details before putting in the request for a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">A vague and slightly more complicated request to order a coffee and a croissant required a little more input from me \u2014 and a lot of time on Gemini\u2019s part scrolling through Starbucks\u2019 hot drink options \u2014 but sure enough, it found the flat white on the menu. It also confronted a crucial decision: order the chocolate croissant warmed, or straight out of the pastry case? Without my input, it specified (correctly) that the pastry should be warmed. Pretty impressive for an assistant that just a year ago would argue with me over the details of a flight on my calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">I\u2019ve got much more testing to do with this automation feature and I plan to spend the next few days throwing it some curveballs. Still, it\u2019s impressive to see this feature out in the wild working as intended \u2014 so far, at least.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Photography by Allison Johnson \/ The Verge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of weeks ago, Google and Samsung announced a big Gemini development coming to their newest devices:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[998,1403,1405,8,1444,9,3160,976,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-4244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-android","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-samsung","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116218044265602374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}