… While some people are obsessed with AI-powered tools, others do their best to abstain from using them or bemoan generative AI’s inevitable encroachment into the apps they use every day. “In many cases, they don't want these AI features,” says Serge Egelman, an online privacy and security expert at … …
… I would say that personalization, for years, has been the holy grail of Search, but we never actually figured it out. …
… Some AI executives argue that subscription plans don’t make sense in the era of AI agents like Claude Code and Codex, which can use significantly more computational power than traditional chatbots. “It’s possible that, in the current era, having an unlimited AI plan is like having an unlimited elec… …
… Even so, all this AI-generated writing still harbors an undercurrent of blandness, with a paint-by-numbers approach to prose that's almost impossible to overcome. …
… China hawks claim that the country gains a strategic advantage by distilling US technology to build open-weight models that are less expensive to run. Others, however, argue that distillation is a widely used way to help quickly boost an AI model’s abilities in certain areas. …
… Google’s help page offers this example: “A malicious instruction could tell the agent to take your private info from your emails or documents and post it on a public website, send your emails in Gmail to an external service without you knowing, expose insights about you based on your data in connec… …
… Just note the boos when commencement speakers mention AI. But as Google sees it, AI search—if you still want to call it that—is an inevitability that even AI haters will embrace. I was among those who recoiled at the introduction of AI Overview in 2024. …
… First, a caveat: The process is a little different for personal Google accounts basically, any account with an @gmail.com email address and company accounts that use Google Workspace basically, any account managed by your employer with an email address of your company's domain . …
… Then also the model in ChatGPT itself has a role to play there, almost as a mentor.” Sottiaux wouldn’t say when the super app is coming, beyond “soon.” But he notes that “a lot of what is going to be made available for everyone in ChatGPT is already available in the Codex app,” and OpenAI has alrea… …
… Google enabled these changes to generate more personalized answers for users—with some high-profile flubs as part of its growing pains. AI Overviews and AI Mode further abstracted my daily experience of using a search engine. …