Gemini begins reasoning across a user's Google history
Google introduced Personal Intelligence in beta, letting eligible users opt in to connections across Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube and Search. Google said it would not train directly on users' Gmail inboxes or Photos libraries and acknowledged risks including over-personalization and inaccurate inferences.
Why it matters: Personal context can make an assistant materially more useful than a stateless chatbot, but it also turns retrieval, permissions and memory correction into core product behavior. The value comes from resolving a user's own history, not merely using a larger…