Breadcrumb Products & Platforms Products Search Bringing the power of Personal Intelligence to more people Mar 17, 2026 · Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link Personal Intelligence is expanding in the U.S. across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome. Read AI-generated summary General summary Personal Intelligence is now expanding in the U.S. across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Gemini in Chrome. This feature connects your Google apps to give you tailored responses, like shopping recommendations based on past purchases or custom travel itineraries. You have control over which apps are connected and can turn them on or off anytime. Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental. Bullet points "Personal Intelligence" brings tailored help to Google Search, the Gemini app, and Chrome. This feature connects your Google apps to give you uniquely relevant responses. Get shopping recommendations, tech support, and travel itineraries tailored to you. Personal Intelligence is now available in the U.S. for free-tier users. You control which apps connect and can turn connections on or off anytime. Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental. Explore other styles: General summary Bullet points Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to article This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental [[duration]] minutes Voice Speed Voice Speed 0.75X 1X 1.5X 2X Since introducing Personal Intelligence earlier this year, people are appreciating the highly tailored help they’re getting in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app — and they’re asking new types of questions. Now, we’re expanding Personal Intelligence in the U.S. across AI Mode in Search , the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome . Personal Intelligence allows you to securely connect the dots across your Google apps — like Gmail, Google Photos and more — to provide responses that are uniquely relevant to you. Whether you’re looking for a specific brand of sneakers you previously purchased, or planning a family getaway based on your hotel confirmations and past travel memories, Personal Intelligence helps you find exactly what you need without having to give all the context. Here are some great examples of how Personal Intelligence can be helpful across AI Mode, the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome: Get tailored shopping recommendations: Looking for the perfect bag to match your new shoes? With Personal Intelligence, you’ll see a range of options that are tailored to your recent purchases as well as your preferred brands and style. The recommendations will even include subtle details — like purses with hardware that go with the new gold shoes. Troubleshoot without the headache: Get help resolving your next tech issue — even if you don’t remember what exact product you bought. Just explain the problem and get specific debugging steps like power cycling or factory resets, tailored to the exact device model from your purchase receipts. Navigate tight schedules with ease: Have a layover and need to grab a bite to eat? You’ll automatically get ideas that account for the foods you like, your exact arrival and departure gates, how long it will take to walk between them, and how much time you have before your next flight boards. Create a custom travel itinerary: Skip the generic “top 10” lists. If you’re looking for hidden gems in Chicago, get recommendations based on your unique interests and past favorites, helping you uncover local eats and neighborhoods tailored specifically to you. Discover a new hobby: Find the perfect activity tailored to your interests — even ones you didn't realize, like poetry, knowing you enjoy reading and nature. Personal Intelligence is available today in the U.S. for AI Mode in Search and it’s starting to roll out in the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome for free-tier users. These connected experiences are available for personal Google accounts and not for Workspace business, enterprise or education users. Helpful experiences that put you in control Personal Intelligence was designed with transparency, choice and control at its core. You choose if and when you want to connect apps like Gmail and Google Photos, and you can turn those connections on or off at any time. Built with privacy in mind, Gemini and AI Mode don't train directly on your Gmail inbox or Google Photos library. We train on limited info, like specific prompts in Gemini or AI Mode and the model’s responses, to improve functionality over time. Learn more here and here . Personal Intelligence is designed to be helpful on your terms. It combines the power of more relevant insights with transparency, choice, and control. The goal is simple: technology that feels like a natural extension of how you get things done. Get more stories from Google in your inbox. Get more stories from Google in your inbox. Email address Your information will be used in accordance with Google's privacy policy. Subscribe Done. Just one step more. Check your inbox to confirm your subscription. You are already subscribed to our newsletter. You can also subscribe with a different email address . POSTED IN: Search Gemini App AI

Breadcrumb Innovation & AI Models & research Google DeepMind Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework Mar 17, 2026 · Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link We’re introducing a framework to measure progress toward AGI, and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build the relevant evaluations. Ryan Burnell Research Scientist, Google DeepMind Oran Kelly Product Manager, Google DeepMind Read AI-generated summary General summary Google DeepMind wants to help measure the progress of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) using cognitive science. Their new paper, "Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy," presents a framework for understanding AI systems' cognitive capabilities. You can participate by designing evaluations for key cognitive abilities in their Kaggle hackathon for a chance to win from a prize pool of $200,000. Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental. Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to article This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental [[duration]] minutes Voice Speed Voice Speed 0.75X 1X 1.5X 2X Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery and help solve some of humanity’s most pressing problems. But it can be difficult to know how close we are to this key milestone, because there’s a lack of empirical tools for evaluating systems’ general intelligence. Tracking progress toward AGI will require a wide range of methods and approaches, and we believe cognitive science provides one important piece of the puzzle. That’s why today, we’re releasing a new paper, “ Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy ,” that presents a scientific foundation for understanding the cognitive capabilities of AI systems. Alongside the paper, we are partnering with Kaggle to launch a hackathon , inviting the research community to help build the evaluations needed to put this framework into practice. Deconstructing general intelligence Our framework draws on decades of research from psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science to develop a cognitive taxonomy. It identifies 10 key cognitive abilities that we hypothesize will be important for general intelligence in AI systems: Perception : extracting and processing sensory information from the environment Generation : producing outputs such as text, speech and actions Attention : focusing cognitive resources on what matters Learning : acquiring new knowledge through experience and instruction Memory : storing and retrieving information over time Reasoning : drawing valid conclusions through logical inference Metacognition : knowledge and monitoring of one's own cognitive processes Executive functions : planning, inhibition and cognitive flexibility Problem solving : finding effective solutions to domain-specific problems Social cognition : processing and interpreting social information and responding appropriately in social situations To understand AI capabilities across these cognitive abilities, we propose a three-stage evaluation protocol that benchmarks system performance in relation to human capabilities: Evaluate AI systems across a broad suite of cognitive tasks covering each ability, using held-out test sets to prevent data contamination Collect human baselines for the same tasks from a demographically representative sample of adults Map each AI system’s performance relative to the distribution of human performance in each ability Going from theory to practice Defining these cognitive abilities is a crucial first step, but we need more than a framework to measure progress. To put this theory into practice, we are launching a new Kaggle hackathon — “ Measuring progress toward AGI: Cognitive abilities ”. The hackathon encourages the community to design evaluations for five cognitive abilities where the evaluation gap is the largest: learning, metacognition, attention, executive functions and social cognition. Participants can use Kaggle's newly launched Community Benchmarks platform to build and test their evaluations against a lineup of frontier models. We are offering a total prize pool of $200,000: $10,000 awards for the top two submissions in each of the five tracks, and $25,000 grand prizes for the four absolute best overall submissions. Submissions are open March 17 through April 16, and we’ll announce the results June 1. Head over to the Kaggle website to start building. Get more stories from Google in your inbox. Get more stories from Google in your inbox. Email address Your information will be used in accordance with Google's privacy policy. Subscribe Done. Just one step more. Check your inbox to confirm your subscription. You are already subscribed to our newsletter. You can also subscribe with a different email address . POSTED IN: Google DeepMind

Guides 🦮 Using NotebookLM with Gemini Google Maps update, NotebookLM Video Overviews. Tricks to using NotebookLM with Gemini. Compilation of NotebookLM guides and how-tos. Chatbot traffic upload. Michael Spencer and Jeff Morhous Mar 18, 2026 ∙ Paid 61 2 8 Share Image by Android Police. This Newsletter usually goes out at 05:30 AM EST. On rare occasions it’s a bit late (like today). Good Morning, I wanted to update you on some of Google’s AI improvements that caught my attention. You can follow the NotebookLM Twitter . At the beginning of March we learned that NotebookLM is introducing Cinematic Video Overviews, a major update to its AI-powered video creation capabilities. NotebookLM leverages Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Veo 3 to offer “fluid animations and rich, detailed visuals to help you learn and engage with the topics you care about. Users with a Google AI Ultra subscription can turn their notes into personalized, fully animated videos. Users can also only generate a max of 20 cinematic video overviews per day. Google is saying that NotebookLM has moved beyond a simple “research assistant”, evolving into a full "Research-to-Content" pipeline. Read how to do it . Read Blog Google Maps Getting a Huge AI Update Ask Maps is a new way to get answers to your complex, real-world questions with a simple conversation. These updates to Google Maps look fairly useful. They are calling this “its biggest upgrade in over a decade.” By combining Gemini models with a deep understanding of the world, Maps now unlocks entirely new possibilities for how you navigate and explore. Learn more . Ask Maps The first big change is a conversational feature called "Ask Maps", which is designed to let you ask Google Maps more complicated questions that it never could have handled before. I asked Jeff Morhous for ideas for beginners on using Gemini with NotebookLM. The AI-Augmented Engineer The vibe-worker’s guide to software engineering, AI workflows and coding interfaces. The AI-Augmented Engineer Accelerating software engineering careers with AI workflows. I show you how to use AI to write better code, ship faster, and get ahead. By Jeff Morhous NotebookLM And Google AI ecosystem related Articles Using NotebookLM to learn new things 3 Hidden NotebookLM Features Most People Don’t Use The ultimate NotebookLM tutorial 58 Nano Banana 2 Prompts for Infographics (With Examples) 9 NotebookLM Prompts That Supercharge Productivity We Blind-Tested ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini — Here’s the Winner (2026) Every Google AI Tool in 2026: What Each One Does and When to Use It How Google Workspace CLI Made My Claude Code Setup 10x More Powerful How I Connected NotebookLM to Claude and Changed How I Do Research Forever Gemini Embedding 2: Google’s first multimodal embedding model . It can map text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single unified space, which is a massive leap for developers building advanced search and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems. The model is based on Gemini and leverages its best-in-class multimodal understanding capabilities to create high-quality embeddings across: Text: supports an expansive context of up to 8192 input tokens Images: capable of processing up to 6 images per request, supporting PNG and JPEG formats Videos: supports up to 120 seconds of video input in MP4 and MOV formats Audio: natively ingests and embeds audio data without needing intermediate text transcriptions Documents: directly embed PDFs up to 6 pages long As you might know, Embeddings are the technology that power experiences in many Google products. While many people have been switching from ChatGPT to Claude, I think Gemini’s offering is worth it now in 2026 if you use Google’s ecosystem. Considering upgrading your Gemini Let me just say I love the idea of a smarter Google Maps. In a Nutshell what does it mean for just the average person though? If you know someone who uses Google Maps and would want to know, feel free to share it with them. Share So convenience wise what’s actually changed or changing? New Experiences in Google Maps I’ve tried my best to break down the key new experiences you can expect over the coming months if you are an Android and Google Maps user. Ask Maps: A new conversational assistant powered by Gemini. Instead of just searching for keywords, you can ask complex, natural-language questions like, “Where can I charge my phone without a long wait for coffee?” or “Find a restaurant with vegan options and easy parking along my route.” Immersive Navigation: This replaces the traditional flat 2D map with a vivid 3D view of your entire route. It uses AI to stitch together Street View and aerial imagery, showing realistic buildings, overpasses, and terrain to help you orient yourself better in unfamiliar areas. Enhanced Road Details: During navigation, the map now highlights specific details like lane markings, crosswalks, traffic lights, and stop signs. This is designed to help drivers prepare for tricky turns and lane changes well in advance. Transparent Buildings: As you approach complex turns, nearby buildings can become translucent on the screen. This “X-ray” style view allows you to see the road ahead even if it curves behind a large structure. Contextual Route Comparisons: When Maps suggests an alternate route, it now explains the trade-offs in plain language—for example, telling you a route is “3 minutes longer but avoids heavy highway construction.” Arrival Guidance: To simplify the “last mile” of a trip, the app now highlights the specific entrance of a building and provides recommendations for nearby parking as you get close to your destination. Natural Voice Guidance: Voice directions have been updated to sound more human and use landmarks. Instead of “In 500 feet, turn right,” you might hear, “Go past this exit and take the next one for Illinois 43 South.” @googlemaps</span> just got a major upgrade with Immersive Navigation.\n\nThe visuals highlight just the details you need to prepare you for what’s coming up next. And, we’ll give you info about tradeoffs for alternate routes.\n\nIt makes such a difference during my drives. ","username":"miriamkdaniel","name":"Miriam Daniel","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1508134390282563586/b8ho2ir1_normal.jpg","date":"2026-03-16T19:00:45.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_1028,c_limit,q_auto:best/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_88/sm0gws6kwrfhwkkikurq","link_url":"https://t.co/Pa6r6mqIZ6"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":13,"retweet_count":8,"like_count":124,"impression_count":10563,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2033619319557656579/vid/avc1/1920x720/KbFzjmF5GBnmey_g.mp4","belowTheFold":true}" class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-gap-12 pc-padding-16 pc-reset bg-primary-zk6FDl outline-detail-vcQLyr pc-borderRadius-md sizing-border-box-DggLA4 pressable-lg-kV7yq8 font-text-qe4AeH tweet-fWkQfo twitter-embed"> Miriam Daniel @miriamkdaniel Driving with @googlemaps just got a major upgrade with Immersive Navigation. The visuals highlight just the details you need to prepare you for what’s coming up next. And, we’ll give you info about tradeoffs for alternate routes. It makes such a difference during my drives. 7:00 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 10.6K Views 13 Replies · 8 Reposts · 124 Likes Google Gemini is Taking Marketshare According to Similarweb, Gemini (in pink) continues to make strides in terms of worldwide traffic and active users. Gemini has been taking ChatGPT Marketshare in some domains We like to talk about the Claude vs. ChatGPT rivalry lately, but Google is the one that’s made the most progress in terms of building a full-stack AI ecosystem. Google’s hard work has paid off with their AI product development. Which has been intense in the last 18 months in particular. 2025 was the key year of success. More ChatGPT Users are also using Gemini As Gemini, Claude, Grok and others reach near parity with ChatGPT, it becomes more about preference, tone and the “personality” of the chatbot (or brand of the company) for many everyday users. Simliarweb has a lot of recent data they have shared on this here (in mid March, 2026). NotebookLM Overtook Perplexity is Website Visits in Early 2026 Using NotebookLM with Gemini Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Michael Spencer. Claim my free post Or purchase a paid subscription. Previous A guest post by Jeff Morhous Accelerating software engineering careers with AI workflows. I show you how to use AI to write better code, ship faster, and get ahead. Subscribe to Jeff