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Last week, we announced our vision for Android to move from an operating system to an intelligence system. And today at #GoogleIO, we shared an exciting next step to bring this to life with a preview of Android Halo. In a world of agents, your device will increasingly take on complex, long-running tasks – whether it’s run directly on your device, in the cloud, or a mix of both. You may be planning a multi-city vacation, organizing a complex project or researching a topic. These tasks will take time to complete, and there may be instances where you have to interact with your agent to ask questions or confirm the actions it needs to take on your behalf. We’re designing Android Halo to be a space in Android’s UI where you can choose to keep tabs on those tasks. Halo can ask you for details to keep the task moving, track progress and notify you when it's done. Android Halo will officially launch later this year with an update to Android 17. It will work with Gemini Spark, and offer even more capability with Gemini Intelligence on our most advanced devices. And because Android is all about openness and choice, we’ll also have an API so it can work with whatever agent you choose. I can’t wait for you to try it!