Gemini's 'Personal Intelligence' is pushy and weird
…By default, an AI will only “remember” the content of a specific chat thread, and the so-called “context window” within a given chat has limits—very large for the…
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Google’s AI answers are starting to look like ads
…More in AI this week Prompt of the week: The “anti-sycophany” prompt AI just loved to praise us. If I had a nickel for each time ChatGPT told me I…
I ditched ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for a week. I didn’t miss ‘em
…our new building management to think about prompting ChatGPT or Claude on their mobile apps. Realizing that I was on a journey where AI wouldn’t be much help, I leaned into…
Claude Code is scanning your messages for curse words
…Of course, swearing at Claude or any other AI will generally steer the chat in a different direction (as it did for Google Search results), but a specific regex check like the…
Hands on: Google's new desktop app is just another Gemini portal
…portal, with a chat history and more. Even if you select the "All" mode versus the AI Mode, an AI summary pops up first, just like an ordinary search page. In this…
Windows 11 is packed with AI now. Here’s how to take back control
…Then, search for browser.ml and turn off settings like "browser.ml.chat.enabled" and "browser.ml.enable" (which are "machine learning" features). Mozilla doesn't provide a complete list of AI…
Google Search is turning into an AI assistant—and it doesn't want you to leave
What is search, anyway? At Google I/O this week, Google made that question even harder to answer, as Search absorbed more of Gemini’s AI capabilities and moved further beyond the…
Gemini just became your new Google Maps buddy
We’ve already seen mapping functionality make its way into the ChatGPT and Gemini apps, but the big mapping apps haven’t had much use for AI–until now, anyway. Google has…
Perplexity’s new tool deploys teams of AI agents
…Another key difference is that you communicate with Perplexity Computer via the Perplexity app, whereas OpenClaw and now Manus AI offer chat via commonly used social messaging apps like WhatsApp, Discord, and…
Apple's new Siri just works. Why can't Windows Copilot?
…Command Palette can't really search files intelligently. The Windows Copilot application can't access your files. Windows Search and now File Explorer actually can search your files, and intelligently so, thanks…