Google's Spark AI agent rolls out to Google's $99 / month AI Ultra plan, showing detailed personal itinerary planning by mining user data across Gmail, Google Docs, and other services

Google launched Spark, an always-on AI agent designed to be an interface for external apps and eventually operate a user's computer. Spark is currently rolling out to Google's $99 / month AI Ultra plan.

Spark created a comprehensive weekend itinerary for a trip to Hershey, PA by accessing the user's home address, children's names and ages, dog's name from vet emails, wife's name and food preferences, and concert tickets from Ticketmaster confirmation emails—details the user had not explicitly provided. It failed to complete an Airbnb booking due to security and authentication policies.

The author describes the experience as both astonishing and deeply invasive, highlighting a trade-off: AI systems become more useful the more personal data they access and can act upon, but this requires users to allow extensive data mining of their correspondence, photos, and calendar.