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Google expanded Personal Intelligence — its system for pulling context from Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and other connected apps into AI responses – to all free-tier Gemini users in the US. The feature now works across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Gemini in Chrome, powered by Gemini 3.1 models. Practical examples include finding purchase receipts in Gmail and providing troubleshooting based on what it finds, or maintaining multi-day research context without repeating queries. It’s off by default, which is the right call given the sensitivity of cross-referencing private emails with search behavior. Apple Intelligence took a privacy-first local approach to similar personalization; Google is betting that cloud-side access to its massive app graph will deliver more useful results, even if the tradeoff makes some users uneasy.
