Personal agents like OpenAI dots depend on Google's app permissions, and Google isn't leveraging it
AlchainHust · x · 2026-09-30
Blogger lipeng0820 notes that OpenAI's dots and most personal-agent products start onboarding by asking users to grant permissions to Google Drive, Gmail, and Calendar.
His take: without Google's app-suite context and control capabilities, this wave of personal agents would be set back "a century." He questions why Google isn't treating this critical data gateway as a competitive moat — calling it hard to tell whether Google is being generous or slow.
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