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Now where was I? Ah, yes, here’s what caught our collective attention:
👩🏻💻 Thanks, but no
Google is quietly rolling out something called "Search Services History." It's on by default. (Of course it is.) Why do we care? Because this setting allows Google to use your media (images, voice notes) to train their AI models.
How to fix this: go to myactivity.google.com → find "Search Services History" → disable "Save Media." If you want to be precise, you can turn off just voice and visual search without touching the rest of your history.
If you can’t find these settings, it means they haven’t been rolled out to your account yet. Check back later. And if you already have web and app activity disabled, Google says you're automatically opted out. Worth double checking, though.
🧐 For real this time?
Apple announced next-generation Apple Intelligence this week, and the headline is a completely rebuilt Siri — the way we thought it should have worked from the beginning. No? Just my thought? Ok.
It can now find a photo from three years ago or dig up an email you half-remember, without you explaining which app to look in.
Safari gets upgraded too: automatic tab grouping, a "Notify Me" feature that watches any page for changes (no more refreshing pages on sold-out products), and build-your-own extensions — describe what you want, Apple Intelligence builds it. Coming this fall with iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate. We'll see.
🥱 Claude also slacks
Anthropic launched Claude Tag which means we can start tagging Claude in conversations, tasks etc. First stop: Slack. Admins can add Claude directly to any Slack channel — tag @Claude, describe what you need, it handles research, writing, analysis, or code review right in the thread.
What makes it different from the usual bots: it's a shared instance. Your whole team sees the work, builds on it, and nothing disappears when someone else was the one who asked.
There's also an ambient mode where Claude proactively flags unresolved threads and stalled tasks without being tagged. Depending on your Slack culture, that's either a gift or a mild source of anxiety. Possibly both.
Requires Claude Team or Enterprise. Setup guide here.
🙅🏻♀️ Enough with the copy-paste
Chrome is testing a floating Ask Gemini button that appears whenever you highlight text on any webpage. Click it, and the Gemini side panel opens with your selection already loaded. No tab switching, no copy-pasting. Yes, just like the rarely useful Copilot version of this. Those of you who use a Microsoft license, now is the time to nod ever so slightly.
Nevertheless, the direction is clear: AI wherever you look, not just where you went looking for it.
If you don’t see this available in your Chrome just yet, patience, it’s rolling out.
🎙️ 16 economists walk into an interview …
The Wall Street Journal asked 16 economists — including people who are clearly impressive as they come from MIT, Harvard, and Stanford — where AI takes the labor market over the next five years. Nearly all agree on productivity gains. (tell us something we didn’t know?)
Considering that they disagree on much of the rest, the only sure thing I learned from this is that no one really knows yet.
A few insights:
AI compresses the learning curve, letting less-experienced people punch above their weight. The roles most at risk are information-processing jobs built on volume without deep specialization.
AI absorbs codifiable knowledge work, the premium shifts to judgment, persuasion, and coordination. The people who navigate that shift inside organizations will be worth more. Whatever that means …
Stop training to be a prediction machine. If a model can learn what you know from historical data, your skill is being commodified. The winners won't be the best coders or writers — they'll be the ones who know which AI output to trust. For now.
The common thread: the people least at risk aren't in the safest jobs. They're the ones most able to adapt.
4️⃣0️⃣ Your 40s need a different operating system
Apparently the reason personal growth stalls after 40 isn't willpower. It's that you're running your 20s system on a life that no longer has the slack for it. More goals, earlier alarms, more hustle. That model ran on spare capacity that quietly left.
The reframe: growth in your 40s isn't addition, it's renovation. Your identity is already built. The work now is removing what's draining the load-bearing parts, rebuilding one domain at a time, and designing habits for your worst day — not your best one.
Apparently, the 7pm version of you was never going to win on grit. That's a constraint to design around, not a flaw to fix. That explains why I feel like the morning me makes better decisions compared to the evening me.
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Jana
