India, May 20 -- Agentic AI, the latest buzzword dominating the tech industry, took centre stage at Google's annual developers conference, Google I/O, on Tuesday. Held near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, the event saw Google unveil a series of AI-focused products and features, including its upcoming AI agent, Gemini Spark.

"We are firmly in our agentic Gemini era," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said before a packed amphitheatre. "I've played around with all sorts of agents and you can really see the potential, but it's still early days when it comes to making agents easy to use, super secure and truly helpful."

But despite the scale and anticipation surrounding Google I/O, another AI-related development ended up ste...