Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households

Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This week, the search giant introduced a new version of CC, an AI agent designed to work across email, calendar, chats, and tasks. With the update, CC now focuses on keeping families organized, planning for the day ahead, and even handling family-specific tasks, like signing permission slips, creating shopping lists, or crafting weekly meal plans.

The move to make CC more family-focused comes as a number of AI startups are experimenting with how to best fit agentic AI into consumers’ lives. Some AI tools, like Ollie and Fambot, for instance, have aimed their services directly at helping parents and families.

Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent that connected to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and the wider web to understand your day, then deliver a “Your Day Ahead” briefing to your inbox. In May, the tool came to the Gemini app as “Daily Brief.”

Google said user requests showed that people wanted to use the feature more for household management tasks. They wanted AI to help them keep up with kids’ school schedules, sports practices, bills, meal plans, and more.