Connecting Gmail to Google’s AI gives the company a much more detailed look into your life. Google only says that it’s not mining those insights for ads today.
Since 2017, Google has promised not to show ads based on users’ Gmail messages.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91579039/google-promised-not-to-show-ads-based-on-your-emails-ai-could-undo-that?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
While Spotify aggravates me in some ways, it’s also full of features that make listening to music more enjoyable.
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The more you use AI, the more crucial it is to avoid its privacy, accuracy, and social snafus. Here’s how.
If you’ve spent any amount of time using ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI assistants, you’ve witnessed some of the ways it can go wrong.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91573804/how-not-to-use-ai?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
You can spend a lot of money on a printer, but why should you?
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You can spend a lot of money on a printer, but why should you?
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AI can feel inescapable. Here’s how to turn off most of it.
It’s not easy wanting nothing to do with AI these days.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91566861/how-to-avoid-ai-in-as-many-places-as-possible?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
The apps and gadgets that carry a CUNY journalism professor through his day.
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Ready for the antidote to streaming indecision? Meet ‘A Good Movie to Watch.’
For all the energy that Netflix and other streaming services invest in guessing exactly what you’ll want to watch, they can be pretty bad at it.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91551216/netflix-algorithm-alternative-what-to-watch?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
Navigating an unusually weak Prime Day.
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Six big unanswered questions about Fox’s plan to buy Roku.
Fox and Roku are about to enter uncharted territory together.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91560896/what-fox-and-roku-arent-telling-us-yet?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
Wabi lets users create, share, and remix simple apps with prompts, and Kuyda likens it to how YouTube streamlined video distribution.
Eugenia Kuyda remembers when one of her favorite apps became too bloated. All she wanted was a simple weight tracker. But she also got calorie counting, meal tracking, and a subscription she didn’t need.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91550747/eugenia-kuyda?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
With Copilot Cowork, he wants workers to delegate complex office tasks to AI agents that can use Excel, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 tools.
After seeing how coders have been delegating large parts of their jobs to AI, Charles Lamanna wants office workers to start doing the same. Lamanna, Microsoft’s executive VP of agents and business apps, heads Copilot Cowork, which lets workers hand off complex tasks to AI agents that hook into Microsoft’s 365 suite. While it’s still in a limited research preview, Cowork allows them to do things like build competitive analyses from internal Excel spreadsheets or weed out scheduling conflicts using context from Outlook.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91550785/charles-lamanna-is-moving-microsoft-copilot-beyond-chat?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
Getting AI to do things for you isn’t as cool as learning to do them yourself.
A few weeks ago, Google Gemini taught me some new graphic design skills.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91559633/this-hidden-google-gemini-feature-can-make-you-a-better-computer-user?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
Easy ways to free up space in Gmail, Google Photos, and Google Drive.
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