Google's new Android update enables Gemini AI to access third-party apps by default, overriding user settings and sparking widespread privacy concerns.

Google’s latest update to its Gemini AI assistant, rolled out on July 7, expands its access to system apps like Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities—even when users have disabled Gemini Apps ...

Google expands Gemini AI access to students under 18, but with safeguards Includes AI literacy tools, fact-checking, and stricter content moderation It nevertheless raises new questions about AI's ...

In this case, the change is no more concerning than, well, anything else AI companies do with your data.Before this update, Gemini's Apps Activity Setting had to be on to use those extensions. If ...

CMS is considering both Google Gemini and Microsoft Co-Pilot as potential companies they’d use for AI services, Salmon-Hosey said. ©2025 The Charlotte Observer.. Distributed by Tribune Content ...