By Jay Peters
Publication Date: 2026-02-25 19:56:00
Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference — before Apple delayed those planned features in March 2025 and which still aren’t released.
Onstage, Sameer Samat, Google’s president of Android, showed off a demo of how Gemini’s new agentic features would work to help wrangle a pizza dinner order from his busy family group chat. Samat asks Gemini to look at the chat thread and figure out what to order, and then make the order with a delivery app. Onscreen — in a prerecorded video, it wasn’t live — you can see Gemini figuring out what everyone wants from the group chat and showing that in a window. Then the user, via voice request, tells Gemini to complete that order,…
