Google tests Gemini calling businesses on your behalf

Google is testing a feature that would let its Gemini AI system place phone calls to businesses on a user’s behalf, according to TechCrunch. The outlet reports that the capability will first roll out to owners of the Pixel 11 in the United States who carry a paid Gemini subscription.

TechCrunch’s report, published September 24, does not specify which types of business calls the feature will handle, nor does it detail how Gemini would identify itself to a business on the other end of the line, or what limits Google has placed on the calls it can place. The report is confined to the fact of the test and its initial eligibility criteria: U.S. market, Pixel 11 hardware, paid subscription tier.

No timeline for wider release beyond this initial group is given in the cited report. TechCrunch does not state whether the feature has been tested publicly before, nor does it quote Google executives or company documentation describing the feature’s design or purpose beyond the basic description of AI-placed calls to businesses.

The Specola notes the report as filed by TechCrunch and confines this bulletin to what that report states. Readers seeking detail on consent mechanisms, call scripting, or business-side disclosure will find none of it addressed in the source material available at time of writing.