Google Cloud's new Gemini Enterprise agent is pitched as a workplace system that plans tasks, uses tools, works across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack, and can route among models. Financial-services and legal agents are in preview. The product claim is less important than the architectural shift: the valuable surface is not another chat window, but a permissioned graph of data, tools, policies and observable actions. Reuters
For an investment or research team, the diligence list is plain: which identity does the agent inherit, where is every action logged, how are model choices constrained, and can a human reconstruct the evidence behind a completed task? Productivity without provenance is merely faster ambiguity.