Google Halo To Bring Agentic Capability To Android Phones

What if, instead of calling your primary care provider to schedule an appointment, or calling a tax office to make a payment, you could just have AI do it?

That’s the kind of capability that Google is hoping to bring to Android systems with a feature called Halo: it’s a type of monitoring, really, that streamlines the use of cutting-edge AI agents, and makes it more hands-free.

For many people, when it comes to using the actual automation facilitated by agentic models, the interface matters. You want something where you don’t have to actually go in and navigate a text system. You want to be able to use simple commands and keystrokes or haptic methods to keep in touch with your AI taskrabbits.

That’s what Halo is supposed to contribute to, in an ecosystem that Google is building right now.