Meta now wants to use your activity from other websites to personalize its AI
… Meta will soon start using your data from other businesses to personalize your feed and its AI responses to your queries. …
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Google is giving you more control over what shows up in your feed
… It lets you prioritize sites you frequently visit, helping their coverage appear across Top Stories, AI Overviews, and AI Mode . So, if you always turn to a particular publication for your tech, sports, or entertainment news, you can essentially tell Google you’d like to see more from it. …
Google gets its biggest visual search update in years — here’s what's changed
… The new homepage is personalized and dynamic, serving up a real-time image gallery tailored to your interests and Collections. AI image generation is coming to AI Overviews, letting you create original images from text prompts using Google’s Nano Banana model. …
Forget basic transcriptions: An upcoming wearable wants to power autonomous AI agents
… According to a Bloomberg report, Plaud’s upcoming wearable marks a strategic shift for the startup, moving from purely reactive transcription tools to hardware designed to feed data into autonomous AI agents. …
Pixels could soon get AI-powered 'Battery Usage Summaries'
… However, this means that battery summaries will most likely not be available on Pixel devices that don’t support Gemini Nano. As a result, devices older than the Pixel 8 series are unlikely to get the feature. The feature will also let users provide feedback on the summaries. …
Survey shows readers' trust in AI is booming, especially for research
… AI certainly has merit for research purposes. Dedicated research tools like Consensus that sample only from peer-reviewed data, or NotebookLM that mostly samples data you feed into it, largely minimize the risk of bogus information. …
Apple’s upgraded Siri is built for business, won't be your AI girlfriend
… This isn’t a bug; it’s a feature, and it aims to keep the AI in-line and out of trouble. Joswiak said the company isn’t using AI in its software just to get in on the hype. …
Fitbit makes it easier to understand your cardio fitness level, but not for everyone yet
… If it goes up, the coach can show you what’s helping, giving you clearer feedback instead of leaving you guessing. This feature is available to both free and Premium users in the Fitbit app, and it will become accessible over the next few weeks. …
Survey reveals 50% of users don't like the new Google Health app
… Reader craigalanfowler said they were part of the public preview and provided a lot of feedback, none of which was taken into account. They also made an excellent point about the AI coach being helpful if it was something we could call up when needed, not thrown in our faces at all times. …
Who asked for this? YouTube Shorts are coming to your Google TV home screen
… Users will be able to jump into a personalized feed of short videos, starting with YouTube Shorts. …