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What’s happened? After the X user @eevblog shared alleged screenshots of Google automatically opting everyone in to let Gmail access their messages and attachments, Gmail issued a public statement ...

Google has denied that it’s been quietly rifling through users’ personal Gmail accounts to train its AI models on their emails and attachments. Cybersecurity company Malwarebytes caused an uproar last ...

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Connecting the dots: Gmail users who are concerned about how Google handles their data should look for the toggles for smart features in the settings menu. The fine print states that the AI ...

Viral posts claim you need to opt out of Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to avoid having your emails used to train AI, but Google says it doesn’t use the content of your emails for AI training. Viral posts ...

Google says the claims about training Gemini AI with users' emails from Gmail are false. Credit: Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images You may have seen the now-viral warnings that Google is ...

Some claims on social media suggest tech companies like Meta, Google and LinkedIn are using your personal data to train their AI tools. Our partners at PolitiFact looked into how they are actually ...

While Google disagrees, the company may have decided again that your data is its toy. Here's how to try to stop Gmail from training its AI on your email. There's no shortage of big tech companies that ...

First- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats are still transmitting information to Google about temperature, humidity, lighting, and more. First- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats are still ...

A security researcher found that discontinued first- and second-gen Nest Thermostats are still sending extensive data, including motion and temperature logs, to Google. This data stream continues ...

SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and better robots. Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called ...