Just last week, Google launched a new test feature in its Gemini AI assistant called Personal Intelligence. The feature allowed users to connect four Google apps — Gmail, YouTube, Google Search, and Google Photos — to Gemini so that the AI assistant can pull user data from those services in order to personalize responses.

This is a marked change for Gmail, more than twenty years after the platform launched. It has generated plenty of coverage as a response, but it comes with caveats — only a limited number of changes over a limited period of time. For anyone stuck with their twenty-year-old high school or college email address, it will come as a relief.

If you aren't yet a Google Fi subscriber, this offer could be right up your alley. The US-based, Google-owned MVNO telecommunications service is offering new subscribers a Pixel 9a for free, as long as they sign up for a new plan and stay with the carrier ...

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