The new CC, an AI agent built for families

laweijfmvo

Why in the world of all bad naming would they choose the two letters that abbreviate one of their largest competitors product

sparrish

Will be shuttered in 3... 2... 1... Cause it's Google. I don't use new Google services. They've shut down too many that I loved and used daily.

jeena

I'm doing something similar but not for the whole family, just for myself, both for home stuff and for work stuff (seperated), but I just give pi access to the tools and accounts I want it to use. I don't use google for anything other than watching YouTube so it would not work for me anyway. I have a knowledge base git repo which the agents use together to do things. The PDF filling thing is especially cool with a KB in the background because the Agent can fill in 99% of the things by itself. It also organizes my todo lists and my calendar.

VladVladikoff

What does CC stand for in this context? Shouldn’t you define your acronyms near the top of the article? Feels pretty amateur coming from Google.

pyrophane

Terribly confusing name and title.

whycome

Creative Commons. Closed Captions. Comedy Central. Cubic Centimeter. I guess this is some sort of forced evolution of Carbon Copy but it seems weakly tied

taybin

It’s not like it’s a lot of work to fill out permission slips. Probably easier than scanning the document. Receiving permission slips is the only way I’m informed about school trips anyways. I’m not sure this is a valid use case. Maybe for people who want even less participation with their families.

ganoushoreilly

The problem with anything AI google launches is that it's going to be fragmented across products with different teams building their own interpretations and it's just not going to work seamlessly. Most of their efforts now fail in one way or another and my guess is that it's just a symptom of how google builds things. : /

giancarlostoro

And the award for most awful product name launch this year goes to Google. Seriously who wrote off on such an awful name?

robotbikes

Something like this could be helpful but nobody should be willing to give up their families privacy and autonomy to a cloud solution ran by Google that could disappear at any point in the future. This is the kind of thing you want to have some level of control over and the ability to keep it going as long as it’s useful vs. rely on a corporation that has made its money datamining everything we do to sell advertising. Either they’ll eventually abandon it or worse case figure out how to load it with surveillance to sell targeted ads.

colingauvin

I tried to connect Claude to my Google workspace calendar and email and tasks. Calendar and email no problems. But no public Tasks mcp server seems to exist. I'd have to host my own.

homeonthemtn

I look forward to Google quietly ghosting this as well.

ycui7

remind me in the old time, we use cc to compile code to machine code. it was cc not gcc.

yipinwong

Thing will die and go to grave in no time.

dhon_

As a parent with kids at three different schools, help keeping track of their schedules would be amazing. Currently updates from the schools are spread over multiple sources: paper notes, email, sms, "news" and "calendar" in school app (which are not kept in sync), and Facebook. Different schools use different apps. Additionally the channels are often noisy, with messages about groups my kids don't belong to, and "helpful tips" like how to pack healthy lunchboxes. These notifications come in during the day while I'm working, get dismissed due to the low SNR and then the useful ones often slip through unnoticed. Definitely an area that is ripe for disruption, but as others here have commented, I don't feel confident about Google being the provider.

lowbloodsugar

Fuck you Google.

reilly3000

“CC” is a great wake word. That is all. The fact that it also bridges the concept of (e)mail carbon copy into discrete agentic permissions, while namemogging their rivals (Claude Code and Siri phonetically) and dismissing Creative Commons… baseless claims. In the coming age of voice AI ubiquity its prime phonetic property and now it’s theirs to lose. Oh and having your brand as your wake word might have some downsides… while I’m sure they’ve gained plenty from it they didn’t deserve[1]. In any case I think they would rather move past it for the next generation of home assistant devices. Prediction: Christmas 2026 will have multiple audio agent products around the tree. Maybe they will just plug in and join the conversation? 1. “Accidental” ‘Ok, Google’ during TV adverts that trigger a wake and audio sample. Ostensibly for closed loop ad tracking. Also, getting to listen into a lot of IRL brand mentions that weren’t a voice command.

zhivota

This is an interesting idea, but I don't trust Google to maintain it so why should I invest? I know I'm not the audience probably but I also can create my own version of this using Cursor that is much more targeted to my family needs very quickly, using Jev and Deepseek, the token costs would be negligible. The only value add here is trust, I basically trust Google to safeguard my data, and any other providers I have to spend time and effort thinking of how to limit their access. And yes, I know many people don't trust them, fine, I'm talking here about Gmail and Gsuite users. For now I prefer to have a push type system where I push only relevant information to an agentic system, not have it constantly scanning everything.