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Google’s Gemini AI can now rummage through your private email threads, Docs, Drive files, and even Chat logs to fuel its “deep research” mode, merging web info with whatever productivity clutter you’ve got lying around your workspace.
According to The Verge, users trigger the feature from the Gemini prompt bar and choose which bits of their digital life to let Gemini trawl: standard Google search, Gmail, Drive, and Chat.
This isn’t just for kicks—Google says people have been begging for an AI that doesn’t just spit out a summary but dives into their actual files, cross-referencing project plans, brainstorming docs, competitor analysis, and more.
The whole thing is styled for report-building, not just question-answering, so Gemini actually draws up a step-by-step plan, then scours the web and your docs, mashing it all together into a report you can edit, expand, or export as a Doc or even an AI-generated podcast, as outlined in Google’s official announcement.
For now, all this fun is desktop-only, though Google says it has plans to bring it to mobile soon, making “context-rich AI research” more portable (or invasive, depending on your paranoia levels)
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