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Gemini gets personal as Google rolls out a big memory upgrade- Android Authority

General technology

AI

Gemini can now remember your life, not just answer questions

Gemini’s new Personal Intelligence mode finally connects the dots in your digital life.

By Jay Bonggolto, January 14, 2026

• Google has introduced Personal Intelligence in Gemini, allowing the AI to remember your personal details by connecting to your Google apps.
• Gemini can now think across your data, not just pull a single email or photo on command.
• Instead of stuffing everything into the model, Gemini selectively surfaces only the most relevant info when needed.
• The feature is now live for US Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, with plans to expand further.

Google is finally tackling a common frustration with AI assistants: their tendency to forget personal details. Starting today, Gemini is getting a memory upgrade called Personal Intelligence. This new feature lets the AI access your Google apps, like your emails and photos, so it can give answers that feel much more relevant to you.

This new feature is now rolling out in beta. Instead of making you jump between Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube, Gemini can now bring all that information together. If you choose to opt in, Gemini can access your Google apps and use that information in real-time, making your personal data more useful.

Up till now, Gemini could fetch things — an email here, a photo there — but it didn’t really think across them. Personal Intelligence changes this by addressing what Google calls the “context packing problem.” In short, your life produces far more data than even large AI models can process at once. Google’s answer is a new system that selects the most relevant emails, images, or searches and delivers them to Gemini only when needed.

This is powered by Gemini 3, Google’s most advanced model family yet. It brings improved reasoning, stronger tool use, and a massive one-million-token context window. That still isn’t enough to swallow an entire inbox or photo library, so Google uses context packing to surface just the right details at the right moment.

Google gives a simple example to show how this works. If you ask Gemini about tire options for your car, it won’t just list specifications. It can find your exact car model from Gmail, get tire sizes from your Photos, and consider your road-trip habits before making suggestions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Repq-4piGeU

If you’re planning a trip, Gemini can check your past travel emails, saved places, and Photos to recommend places that match your real interests instead of just tourist spots.

It also works across text, images, and videos. Gemini might pull a license plate number from a photo, confirm a trim level from an email receipt, then combine that with Search results, all in one response.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Gemini gets personal as Google rolls out a big memory upgrade- Android Authority

Gemini gets personal as Google rolls out a big memory upgrade- Android Authority

General technology

AI

Gemini can now remember your life, not just answer questions

Gemini’s new Personal Intelligence mode finally connects the dots in your digital life.

By Jay Bonggolto, January 14, 2026

• Google has introduced Personal Intelligence in Gemini, allowing the AI to remember your personal details by connecting to your Google apps.
• Gemini can now think across your data, not just pull a single email or photo on command.
• Instead of stuffing everything into the model, Gemini selectively surfaces only the most relevant info when needed.
• The feature is now live for US Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, with plans to expand further.

Google is finally tackling a common frustration with AI assistants: their tendency to forget personal details. Starting today, Gemini is getting a memory upgrade called Personal Intelligence. This new feature lets the AI access your Google apps, like your emails and photos, so it can give answers that feel much more relevant to you.

This new feature is now rolling out in beta. Instead of making you jump between Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube, Gemini can now bring all that information together. If you choose to opt in, Gemini can access your Google apps and use that information in real-time, making your personal data more useful.

Up till now, Gemini could fetch things — an email here, a photo there — but it didn’t really think across them. Personal Intelligence changes this by addressing what Google calls the “context packing problem.” In short, your life produces far more data than even large AI models can process at once. Google’s answer is a new system that selects the most relevant emails, images, or searches and delivers them to Gemini only when needed.

This is powered by Gemini 3, Google’s most advanced model family yet. It brings improved reasoning, stronger tool use, and a massive one-million-token context window. That still isn’t enough to swallow an entire inbox or photo library, so Google uses context packing to surface just the right details at the right moment.

Google gives a simple example to show how this works. If you ask Gemini about tire options for your car, it won’t just list specifications. It can find your exact car model from Gmail, get tire sizes from your Photos, and consider your road-trip habits before making suggestions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Repq-4piGeU

If you’re planning a trip, Gemini can check your past travel emails, saved places, and Photos to recommend places that match your real interests instead of just tourist spots.

It also works across text, images, and videos. Gemini might pull a license plate number from a photo, confirm a trim level from an email receipt, then combine that with Search results, all in one response.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Gemini gets personal as Google rolls out a big memory upgrade- Android Authority

Hey all, just starting my public build journey with https://lockorg.com

#privacy #encryption #yourdata

#30DayMapChallenge #MyData #YourData Instead of posting a map of my data, I would like to remind everyone that Google Location History is about to change dramatically very soon. The location history will be only saved locally on device with some vague promises from Google on how you can securely back up an encrypted archive. Keep your location data safe.

#30DayMapChallenge #MyData #YourData Instead of posting a map of my data, I would like to remind everyone that Google Location History is about to change dramatically very soon. The location history will be only saved locally on device with some vague promises from Google on how you can securely back up an encrypted archive. Keep your location data safe.

#30DayMapChallenge #MyData #YourData Instead of posting a map of my data, I would like to remind everyone that Google Location History is about to change dramatically very soon. The location history will be only saved locally on device with some vague promises from Google on how you can securely back up an encrypted archive. Keep your location data safe.

#30DayMapChallenge #MyData #YourData Instead of posting a map of my data, I would like to remind everyone that Google Location History is about to change dramatically very soon. The location history will be only saved locally on device with some vague promises from Google on how you can securely back up an encrypted archive. Keep your location data safe.

#30DayMapChallenge #MyData #YourData Instead of posting a map of my data, I would like to remind everyone that Google Location History is about to change dramatically very soon. The location history will be only saved locally on device with some vague promises from Google on how you can securely back up an encrypted archive. Keep your location data safe.

As a #VeryGeneralObservation... #IF (and #IT's a #VeryBIG #IF) you #Think that a #SmartWatch will #BenefitYou and #YourHealthMatters, #Then #Great...

#However, the #TradeOff is that you have to #Share #YourHealthData with #BigTech who will #Monetise #YourData for #AsLong as you're #Dependent on #TheirTechnology... And, #BigTech will only #SupportYou for #AsLong as #IT's in their #CorporateInterests to #DoSo...

They're #NotCharities and #IT's #YourData...

#So... #HaveALittleThink #AboutThat...

🧙:fediverse:🤖🐺🤖:fediverse:​🧙 | :PirateBadge:⚕️🦹🦄🦹⚕️:PirateBadge:

If you're using Spotify, you can go request quite a BIG amount of personal informations they've aggregated to you:
→ https://www.spotify.com/account/privacy

#Spotify #YourData #GDPR

If you're using Spotify, you can go request quite a BIG amount of personal informations they've aggregated to you:
→ https://www.spotify.com/account/privacy

#Spotify #YourData #GDPR

If you're using Spotify, you can go request quite a BIG amount of personal informations they've aggregated to you:
→ https://www.spotify.com/account/privacy

#Spotify #YourData #GDPR

If you're using Spotify, you can go request quite a BIG amount of personal informations they've aggregated to you:
→ https://www.spotify.com/account/privacy

#Spotify #YourData #GDPR

If you're using Spotify, you can go request quite a BIG amount of personal informations they've aggregated to you:
→ https://www.spotify.com/account/privacy

#Spotify #YourData #GDPR

To all Universities around the world: use Free Software, be in control!

https://www.surf.nl/en/news/own-your-data-with-open-source-collaboration-platform

Well done @SURF for testing the Free Software Nextcloud https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nextcloud

Want to know what Free Software is and why you should use it?

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

#FreeSoftware #University #Education #Collaboration #BeInControl #YourData #fsf #fsfe

To all Universities around the world: use Free Software, be in control!

https://www.surf.nl/en/news/own-your-data-with-open-source-collaboration-platform

Well done @SURF for testing the Free Software Nextcloud https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nextcloud

Want to know what Free Software is and why you should use it?

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

#FreeSoftware #University #Education #Collaboration #BeInControl #YourData #fsf #fsfe

To all Universities around the world: use Free Software, be in control!

https://www.surf.nl/en/news/own-your-data-with-open-source-collaboration-platform

Well done @SURF for testing the Free Software Nextcloud https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nextcloud

Want to know what Free Software is and why you should use it?

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

#FreeSoftware #University #Education #Collaboration #BeInControl #YourData #fsf #fsfe

To all Universities around the world: use Free Software, be in control!

https://www.surf.nl/en/news/own-your-data-with-open-source-collaboration-platform

Well done @SURF for testing the Free Software Nextcloud https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nextcloud

Want to know what Free Software is and why you should use it?

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

#FreeSoftware #University #Education #Collaboration #BeInControl #YourData #fsf #fsfe

To all Universities around the world: use Free Software, be in control!

https://www.surf.nl/en/news/own-your-data-with-open-source-collaboration-platform

Well done @SURF for testing the Free Software Nextcloud https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nextcloud

Want to know what Free Software is and why you should use it?

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

#FreeSoftware #University #Education #Collaboration #BeInControl #YourData #fsf #fsfe

The way I understand it, if you have a Reddit account and have decided to leave. You should delete your data (for the day), but not delete your account.

This way you can go back and re-delete your data after they do a daily restore of said deleted data.

If, by deleting your data while maintaining your account, they (Reddit) divorce you from your data such that you can no longer delete it, what do you do then?

#Reddit #undelete #YourData #redditMigration

The way I understand it, if you have a Reddit account and have decided to leave. You should delete your data (for the day), but not delete your account.

This way you can go back and re-delete your data after they do a daily restore of said deleted data.

If, by deleting your data while maintaining your account, they (Reddit) divorce you from your data such that you can no longer delete it, what do you do then?

#Reddit #undelete #YourData #redditMigration

Downloading your birdsite data is the equivalent of packing a go-bag, when you need to flee a third-world country in chaos.

#download #yourdata #birdsite #migration #bananarepublic #yourdataisyourdata

Downloading your birdsite data is the equivalent of packing a go-bag, when you need to flee a third-world country in chaos.

#download #yourdata #birdsite #migration #bananarepublic #yourdataisyourdata

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

ITWire interview with Frank about how #Nextcloud takes on #Office365 and #GSuite for #privacy #security #compliance #onpremises #yourdata https://www.itwire.com/cloud/thinking-big-nextcloud-chief-aims-to-overtake-office365-and-gsuite.html

ITWire interview with Frank about how #Nextcloud takes on #Office365 and #GSuite for #privacy #security #compliance #onpremises #yourdata https://www.itwire.com/cloud/thinking-big-nextcloud-chief-aims-to-overtake-office365-and-gsuite.html

@GDPRHallOfShame :) #gdpr #avatar #artwithlinux #artwithopensource #artwithfloss #icon #design #art with @inkscape
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@opensourcedesign @Curator #yourdata #yourrights #privacy