Google Gemini’s New "Personal Intelligence" Can Read Your Life

Google has launched a new beta feature called Personal Intelligence that allows Gemini to securely search through your Gmail, Google Photos, and Drive to answer personal questions. In one demonstration, the AI was able to find a user's license plate number from an old photo and cross-reference a car repair receipt in their email to help them finish a transaction at the DMV. Read more: Gemini gets ‘Personal Intelligence’, can access information from Gmail, drive

OpenAI to Start Showing Ads in ChatGPT for Free Users

OpenAI officially announced it will begin testing advertisements at the bottom of ChatGPT responses for users on its free and "Go" tiers. While CEO Sam Altman promised that ads will never influence the AI's actual answers, the move is a major shift intended to help cover the "exorbitant costs" of running the world’s most popular chatbot. Read more:OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT - The Hindu

Google Pulls AI Overviews from Medical Searches After Safety Concerns

Following an investigation that found its AI was giving potentially dangerous health advice—such as missing critical factors like age and sex in blood test results—Google has quietly removed AI summaries for medical queries. This "pause" highlights the ongoing struggle to make AI a reliable source for health information where accuracy is a matter of life or death. Read more: Google removes AI Overviews about health

The $5 Billion Siri-Gemini Deal Triggers Privacy Alarms

As details emerge about Apple's multi-billion dollar plan to put Google’s Gemini "brain" inside Siri, regulators are already raising red flags about privacy and competition. While Apple promises all data will stay on your device or in its private cloud, experts are questioning if a partnership this big will make it impossible for smaller, more private AI companies to ever compete. Read more: Apple's Siri is getting Google Gemini — why the AI deal is drawing scrutiny

Daily Tip: The "Digital Detective" Prompt

Since the big news today is about AI searching your "personal memory," you can actually use ChatGPT or Gemini right now to act as a detective for your own data. If you have a long, messy document or a list of items, use this to find the needle in the haystack.

The Prompt:

"I am going to paste a long list of [emails/notes/receipts]. My goal is to find [specific info, e.g., the total I spent on coffee last month]. Please extract only that information and put it into a simple 3-line summary for me."