{"id":940632,"date":"2026-10-20T23:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940632\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:54:12","slug":"geminis-personal-intelligence-is-coming-to-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940632\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini’s Personal Intelligence is coming to cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google kicked off 2026<\/a> with the addition of Personal Intelligence to Gemini, allowing its AI to pull in more of your data to formulate answers. It started as a paid feature but eventually came to all Gemini users. However, this feature wasn\u2019t available in the car until now. Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence to Android Auto and Google Built-in, and it is still, thankfully, an optional feature.<\/p>\n

As Google points out<\/a>, a generative AI\u2019s outputs are better \u201cwhen it knows the world and knows you,\u201d which is correct in an uncomfortable sort of way. The more context you can provide to a model, the better the output will be at the end of the token shuffle. Since Google has so much of your data already, it sees Personal Intelligence as a differentiator versus other AI systems. You don\u2019t have to provide the AI context because it already has it from apps like Gmail and Calendar.<\/p>\n

Personal Intelligence is beginning its rollout in Android Auto today, and it will come to vehicles with Google built-in in the next few months. As an aside, \u201cGoogle built-in\u201d is questionable branding, but it refers to cars that run Google software in the infotainment system rather than projecting an interface from your phone. Very few vehicles have Google built-in, but Google often releases new car features on them first. This time, it\u2019s the other way around.<\/p>\n

Google says Personal Intelligence is a natural fit for the car, allowing you to focus on the road instead of providing detailed instructions to your digital assistant. For example, you can say \u201ctake me to my doctor\u2019s appointment,\u201d and Gemini can get that data from your connected calendar. It can also leverage visual analysis to find locations in your photos to begin navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google kicked off 2026 with the addition of Personal Intelligence to Gemini, allowing its AI to pull in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-940632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}