And it's not even a CC-like, it's a claw-like, afaict?

By that measure, every email client is promoting Claude Code. ;)

They can still find a different name. Cc is not the only possible name in the names universe.

Until someone at Google makes signups to this someone's KPI. Then you'll hear about it whenever you touch any Google product until it inevitably gets killed in 18 months. Meanwhile the PM hit their KPI and got promoted.

Thats still an awful name.

It took me 10 minutes to figure that out, and I have been in tech for 30 years :) I'm probably just dense but it's not a good sign.

How many of non-tech people have even encountered the term CC before? E-mail is a receive-only medium for most of them.

it's ridiculously bad

My first thought was the irony of something used to interface with models that were trained on data that was presumably not properly licensed having the same name as the Creative Commons abbreviation.

Same energy as calling YouTube Premium YouTube Red.

According to other comments on this thread:

Yes! That's it exactly! Carbon Copy!

Except from email, not rip-offs :)

/s

(And: agreed on this being a terrible name!)

Also, another unsearchable name, just like Go.

I guess people will be searching for "CC agent" or something.

I guess they want to use the email CC concept showing the agent is a side assistant.

At least we know KilledByGoogle will never be starved for content.

One is pi.dev on the console, but because the KB is a git repository I have it on each computer. On top of that I also run Hermes Agent and have set up there one agent to be responsible for the KB stuff and that one I connected to a Matrix channel and can use it from the phone and any device where I have a matrix client like Element set up.

With pi.dev I use it in a container https://git.jeena.net/jeena/agent-container and selectively give it access to Firefox via https://github.com/ThinkerYzu/foxmcp when I want it to help me with something in the browser (doing taxes, applying for things online in a foreign language, etc.)

Why…

It's not an acronym. It's a name.

I wonder if the younger generations could explain the origins of carbon copy.

The winning euphemism for creepy AI-powered behavior surveillance→profiling→nudging seems to be “digital twin”, so that tracks.

Terribly confusing name and title.

Creative Commons. Closed Captions. Comedy Central. Cubic Centimeter.

I guess this is some sort of forced evolution of Carbon Copy but it seems weakly tied

It’s not like it’s a lot of work to fill out permission slips. Probably easier than scanning the document. Receiving permission slips is the only way I’m informed about school trips anyways. I’m not sure this is a valid use case. Maybe for people who want even less participation with their families.

The problem with anything AI google launches is that it's going to be fragmented across products with different teams building their own interpretations and it's just not going to work seamlessly. Most of their efforts now fail in one way or another and my guess is that it's just a symptom of how google builds things.

: /

Reminds me of when I realized MSSQL sometimes gets shortened to just "SQL" or "SQL Server" always felt a little disingenuous like if they're implying they're the only SQL db in town, and then to top it off it dilutes search results.

Go is already hard to look up, imagine trying to find help for "CC" of all things. Seriously, do they work on search engines at all over there? :)

This year? CC was launched last year.

This was the original launch announcement from 2025: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/go...

Something like this could be helpful but nobody should be willing to give up their families privacy and autonomy to a cloud solution ran by Google that could disappear at any point in the future. This is the kind of thing you want to have some level of control over and the ability to keep it going as long as it’s useful vs. rely on a corporation that has made its money datamining everything we do to sell advertising. Either they’ll eventually abandon it or worse case figure out how to load it with surveillance to sell targeted ads.

I tried to connect Claude to my Google workspace calendar and email and tasks. Calendar and email no problems. But no public Tasks mcp server seems to exist. I'd have to host my own.

I look forward to Google quietly ghosting this as well.

remind me in the old time, we use cc to compile code to machine code. it was cc not gcc.

Thing will die and go to grave in no time.

As a parent with kids at three different schools, help keeping track of their schedules would be amazing.

Currently updates from the schools are spread over multiple sources: paper notes, email, sms, "news" and "calendar" in school app (which are not kept in sync), and Facebook. Different schools use different apps.

Additionally the channels are often noisy, with messages about groups my kids don't belong to, and "helpful tips" like how to pack healthy lunchboxes. These notifications come in during the day while I'm working, get dismissed due to the low SNR and then the useful ones often slip through unnoticed.

Definitely an area that is ripe for disruption, but as others here have commented, I don't feel confident about Google being the provider.

Fuck you Google.

“CC” is a great wake word. That is all. The fact that it also bridges the concept of (e)mail carbon copy into discrete agentic permissions, while namemogging their rivals (Claude Code and Siri phonetically) and dismissing Creative Commons… baseless claims.

In the coming age of voice AI ubiquity its prime phonetic property and now it’s theirs to lose.

Oh and having your brand as your wake word might have some downsides… while I’m sure they’ve gained plenty from it they didn’t deserve[1]. In any case I think they would rather move past it for the next generation of home assistant devices.

Prediction: Christmas 2026 will have multiple audio agent products around the tree. Maybe they will just plug in and join the conversation?

1. “Accidental” ‘Ok, Google’ during TV adverts that trigger a wake and audio sample. Ostensibly for closed loop ad tracking. Also, getting to listen into a lot of IRL brand mentions that weren’t a voice command.

This is an interesting idea, but I don't trust Google to maintain it so why should I invest?

I know I'm not the audience probably but I also can create my own version of this using Cursor that is much more targeted to my family needs very quickly, using Jev and Deepseek, the token costs would be negligible.

The only value add here is trust, I basically trust Google to safeguard my data, and any other providers I have to spend time and effort thinking of how to limit their access. And yes, I know many people don't trust them, fine, I'm talking here about Gmail and Gsuite users.

For now I prefer to have a push type system where I push only relevant information to an agentic system, not have it constantly scanning everything.