{"id":384667,"date":"2026-01-22T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384667\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:45:08","slug":"google-adds-your-gmail-and-photos-to-ai-mode-to-enable-personal-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384667\/","title":{"rendered":"Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable &#8220;Personal Intelligence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google believes AI is the future of search, and it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/05\/at-i-o-2025-google-leaves-no-doubt-that-ai-mode-is-the-future-of-search\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not shy about saying it<\/a>. After adding <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/google\/2026\/01\/gemini-can-now-scan-your-photos-email-and-more-to-provide-better-answers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">account-level personalization<\/a> to Gemini earlier this month, it\u2019s now updating <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/google\/2025\/03\/google-is-expanding-ai-overviews-and-testing-ai-only-search-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Mode<\/a> with so-called \u201cPersonal Intelligence.\u201d According to Google, this makes the bot\u2019s answers more useful because they are tailored to your personal context.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, the feature is rolling out to all users who subscribe to Google AI Pro or AI Ultra. However, it will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.google.com\/search\/experiment\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labs feature<\/a> that needs to be explicitly enabled (subscribers will be prompted to do this). Google tends to expand access to new AI features to free accounts later on, so free users will most likely get access to Personal Intelligence in the future. Whenever this option does land on your account, it\u2019s entirely optional and can be disabled at any time.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to integrate your data with AI Mode, the search bot will be able to scan your Gmail and Google Photos. That\u2019s less extensive than the Gemini app version, which supports Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube history. Gmail will probably be the biggest contributor to AI Mode\u2014a great many life events involve confirmation emails. Traditional search results when you are logged in are adjusted based on your usage history, but this goes a step further.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to use AI Mode to find information, Personal Intelligence could actually be quite helpful. When you connect data from other Google apps, Google\u2019s custom Gemini search model will instantly know about your preferences and background\u2014that\u2019s the kind of information you\u2019d otherwise have to include in your search query to get the best output. With Personal Intelligence, AI Mode can just pull those details from your email or photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google believes AI is the future of search, and it\u2019s not shy about saying it. After adding account-level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-384667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}