Google's Gemini Spark Now Tracks Topics and Events in Real Time

Google has updated Gemini Spark to support continuous monitoring of topics and events, rather than requiring users to check in manually. Users can ask it to track something specific, such as a stock price hitting a certain threshold or the outcome of a sports match, and Spark will watch that topic in the background. When the tracked event occurs, it sends an email with a full analysis rather than a simple notification. This moves Gemini Spark from a reactive assistant into something closer to a standing agent. Instead of answering a single query and stopping, it maintains awareness of a topic over time and acts autonomously when a condition is met. The example given is sport: tell it to watch your team's match, and the moment the game ends, an analysis lands in your inbox without any further prompting. The feature is built into the same Gemini desktop app that arrived on Mac earlier this month. Alongside the real-time tracking capability, Google has added new third-party integrations and support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard that lets AI models connect to external tools and data sources in a consistent way. That combination suggests Google is positioning Spark not just as a monitoring tool but as a hub that can plug into other services and act on information as it arrives. The update reflects a broader shift among AI assistants towards persistent, event-driven behaviour rather than one-off question-and-answer sessions. By watching for triggers and acting the moment they're hit, Gemini Spark reduces the need for users to repeatedly ask for updates, instead pushing relevant information to them at the right moment.