Across the archipelago, where small business owners have long juggled the relentless administrative weight of the digital age, Google has introduced Gemini Spark — an autonomous AI agent that works without being asked, absorbing the routine labor of email, scheduling, and expense tracking so that human attention might be freed for work that actually requires it. Arriving first for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Philippines, Spark represents a quiet but consequential shift in the relationship between people and their tools: from systems that respond to systems that anticipate. The question