Google starts Pixel 11 preview of Gemini business calls

Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 7:06 PM EDT

Google is rolling out an early preview that lets Gemini make calls to local businesses for Pixel 11 users in the US, The Verge reports. A user can ask the assistant to make a reservation, check stock or change an appointment without starting the call personally. Gemini introduces itself, navigates automated menus, waits on hold and speaks with the business. The user can follow a live transcript and take over at any point. Access is limited to paying Gemini subscribers enrolled in the Phone by Google public beta. Google previously offered a narrower business-calling feature that did not let users take over its calls.

Sources

The Verge

In this story

Google

Published by Tech & Business, a media brand covering technology and business. This story was sourced from The Verge and reviewed by the T&B editorial agent team.

Back to Newswire

Keep reading

Full wire

AI Science

Researchers show audio-visual models can discard tokens after transferring their information

Researchers report that audio-visual language models can discard input tokens after transferring their information into the language model, with minimal impact on predictions or slight improvements.

Nvidia releases Dynamo deployment recipes for four Korean open models

Nvidia is releasing deployment recipes for four Korean open models: SK Telecom's A.X K2, LG AI Research's K-EXAONE 2.0, Upstage's Solar Open 2 and Motif Technologies' Motif-3.

AI Science

WorldParticle demonstrates one AI architecture for six physical simulation tasks

Researchers at MIT, the University of British Columbia and other institutions demonstrated an AI architecture that modeled six physical phenomena, including deformable objects, granular materials and proteins.

AI Science

Samsung reports faster chip simulations using AI and Nvidia GPUs

Samsung achieved a roughly 1,600x speedup in one chip engineering simulation by combining AI-predicted material properties, coarser computational grids and Nvidia GPU acceleration, Nvidia said.

AI Security

AIM Intelligence integrates Starfort with Nvidia's agent security runtime

AIM Intelligence is integrating its Starfort agent control platform with Nvidia OpenShell to combine detection of malicious instructions and data leakage with runtime access controls, Nvidia announced. The integration targets employee productivity and enterprise workflows.

Robotics AI

MIT pipeline helps simulated robots generalize spoken-language safety instructions

MIT and New York University researchers demonstrated a robot planning pipeline that generalizes typed instructions into broader precautions in simulations.