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In this newsletter:
- Gemini adds personal intelligence that pulls answers from Gmail and Photos
- Apple replaces OpenAI with Google’s Gemini for Siri and Apple Intelligence
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Translate to compete with Google Translate
Plus, you’ll find new AI tools and this week’s top AI news headlines!
🔗 Gemini Adds Personal Intelligence That Pulls Answers From Your Gmail and Photos
Google just launched Personal Intelligence for Gemini, connecting Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search with one tap so the AI chatbot can pull your personal details and recommend products using your actual data.
How Personal Intelligence works:
- Single-tap connection of Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search to the Gemini chatbot
- AI reasons across complex sources and retrieves specific details from emails or photos
- Works across text, photos, and video for tailored answers
- Rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S. over the next week
- Works on web, Android, and iOS with all Gemini models
Real-world example from Google VP:
- Needed the tire size for the 2019 Honda minivan at the tire shop, Gemini found specs, suggested daily driving vs all-weather options based on family road trips visible in Google Photos
- Pulled ratings and prices for each option
- Retrieved the license plate number from the photo when needed at the counter
- Identified van's specific trim by searching Gmail
Other use cases:
- Planning spring break by analyzing family interests and past trips in Gmail and Photos
- Skipped tourist traps, suggested an overnight train journey, and specific board games for the trip
- Provides tips for books, shows, clothes, and travel based on your actual preferences
Privacy approach:
- Off by default - you choose to turn it on, and which apps to connect
- Can turn off anytime or disconnect individual apps
- Data already lives at Google securely, not sent elsewhere for personalization
- Gemini references or explains sources so you can verify answers
- Can correct responses on the spot ("Remember, I prefer window seats")
- Can regenerate responses without personalization or use temporary chats
- Guardrails avoid proactive assumptions about sensitive health data
What Google trains on vs doesn't:
- Does NOT train directly on your Gmail inbox or Photos library
- Does NOT learn your specific license plate number
- DOES train on specific prompts and model responses after filtering/obscuring personal data
- Train systems to understand "when you ask for the license plate, locate it," not to memorize the actual number
Known limitations Google admits:
- May encounter inaccurate responses or "over-personalization" connecting unrelated topics
- Struggles with timing, nuance, and relationship changes like divorces
- May misread your interests (seeing golf photos assumes you love golf, misses that you're there for your son)
- Users encouraged to give "thumbs down" feedback when it gets things wrong
Expansion plans:
- Currently limited to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S.
- Will expand to more countries and free tier over time
- Coming to AI Mode in Search soon
- Not available for Workspace business, enterprise, or education users
Why it matters:
Google is betting users will trade privacy for convenience by letting Gemini read everything in Gmail and Photos to answer personal questions. The company promises it doesn't train models on your actual data, but the AI still needs full access to your emails, photos, and search history to work - making this the most invasive integration yet between personal data and AI chatbots.
👀 Read more about Gemini’s Personal Intelligence!
🤝 Apple Ditches OpenAI for Google's Gemini to Power Siri and Apple Intelligence
Apple just picked Google over OpenAI to run its AI features, validating that Google caught up in the AI race while dealing a major blow to Sam Altman's $500 billion startup that loses its built-in distribution to 1.5 billion iPhone users.
Why this deal is huge for Google:
- Google's Gemini models will power new Siri and Apple Intelligence features after Apple determined that it "provides the most capable foundation"
- Bloomberg previously reported Apple pays Google about $1 billion annually; financial details of the new deal were not disclosed
- OpenAI partnership is not exclusive, but Google is now the primary provider
- Google gets access to 1.5 billion iPhone users as a distribution channel
- Potential share of revenue users generate through product discovery and purchases via Gemini-powered Siri
- Could lead to the Gemini chatbot app being pre-installed on iPhones eventually
- Announcement lifted Google's market cap above $4 trillion
Why Apple chose Google over OpenAI:
- Apple doesn't allow training on user data - Google's control over its own cloud provides stronger privacy and IP guarantees than OpenAI or Anthropic
- Gemini 3 models are among the most capable on the market after Google recovered from early embarrassments (Bard recommending glue on pizza, generating Black Nazis)
- Google's tensor processing units may offer cost and speed advantages over Nvidia GPUs
What this reveals about Apple's AI struggles:
- Still can't build a competitive AI model despite being a vertical integration champion
- CEO Tim Cook promised an updated Siri for 2026 using Apple's own AI - those models aren't ready
- Apple's intelligence features were delayed for months, and customers filed a class action lawsuit over iPhone 16 ads promoting unavailable AI features
- Cook shook up ranks, installed a new AI head who previously worked at Google on Gemini
- 2026 is a "make-or-break year" for Apple, according to Futurum Group analyst
Why this is bad news for OpenAI:
- Solidifies the narrative that Google not only caught up but also edged past OpenAI with the best AI models
- Being deprived of built-in distribution through Apple's 1.5 billion users makes it harder to grow ChatGPT's 800 million weekly users
- Recent reports suggest ChatGPT usage growth is slowing
- Risk that Apple users see Gemini as a better model through Siril, limiting ChatGPT's synonymous association with AI
- OpenAI loses visibility into Apple's AI capabilities, making it harder to position a new AI device (developed with Jony Ive) as an iPhone killer
Why it matters:
The deal proves Google recovered from its embarrassing AI stumbles and is now winning the platform war that will define the next generation of computing. Apple's continued dependence on outside partners exposes its failure to build competitive AI despite massive resources.
OpenAI loses the iPhone distribution that could've made ChatGPT the default AI for a billion people. Sam Altman called Apple his primary long-term rival - now he has to beat them without access to their users.
👀 Read more about Apple & Google deal!
🌐 OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Translate to Compete With Google Translate
OpenAI quietly launched ChatGPT Translate as a standalone tool to compete with Google Translate, but the early release is missing several features Google already offers.
What's new:
- Free for all users, no paid account required
- Standalone web tool with two text boxes and dropdown menus for 50+ languages, visually similar to Google Translate layout
- The desktop version only supports plain text translation
- Mobile browser version supports text and microphone/voice input
- Translates text, voice, or images, casual messages, book excerpts, emails, menus, screenshots, and travel signs
- Tone control feature rewrites translations for specific audiences, like business formal, children's explanations, or academic writing
- Understands tone, idioms, and context according to OpenAI
- Users can ask follow-up questions, request rephrasing, or switch languages within the same chat
- Designed for language learners with grammar explanations, travelers with menu/sign translation, and workers with document translation
- No public launch announcement - page only found by searching "ChatGPT Translate."
- Image translation is mentioned on the webpage, but not actually available/functional yet
- No support for documents, handwriting, websites, or real-time conversations
- Webpage only, with no dedicated app on iOS or Android app stores, and no offline use
Why it matters:
OpenAI is challenging Google Translate with context-aware translations and flexible tone control, but the tool is clearly early in development. Google Translate supports 200+ languages and was recently updated with Gemini features handling idioms, slang, voice input, image uploads, and offline use - advantages ChatGPT Translate can't match yet, despite its conversational approach.
The quiet launch suggests OpenAI is testing before a major rollout, but it needs significant feature additions to compete with Google's established tool.
👀 Read more about ChatGPT Translate!
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- OpenAI Signs Reported $10B Compute Deal With Cerebras to Support Scaling Large AI Models and Infrastructure (View Article)
- AI Models Are Starting to Crack High‑Level Math Problems By Learning Structured Reasoning and Symbolic Approaches Beyond Simple Pattern Recognition (View Article)
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- VoiceRun, a Startup for Building Custom Voice AI Agents Without Coding, Raises $5.5M to Launch Scalable Voice Agent Factory for Businesses (View Article)
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