All articles tagged with #personalization
Meta has connected its new AI assistant, Muse, with Spotify, marking the first streaming service integration for the platform. This allows users to automate music playback, create destination-based playlists, and schedule audio based on calendar events. While Spotify already offers AI features, Muse adds a layer of cross-app coordination, linking listening habits to broader user schedules and plans.
OpenAI is testing a new Writing Style feature for ChatGPT that can mimic a user’s voice by referencing writing examples from connected apps like Slack for messaging, Google Drive and Notion for documents, and Gmail for email. Once enabled, ChatGPT would draft content across messaging, documents, and email in the user’s tone by analyzing existing samples, a approach that’s currently limited to a small group of users with no wide rollout announced.
A Tom's Guide feature explains seven personal details to share with ChatGPT to get better, more tailored answers: your goals, your AI tool expertise, how you’d like responses delivered, your constraints (budget, time, etc.), your hobbies/interests, the intended context for the information, and privacy boundaries. It also emphasizes avoiding sensitive data, and offers a reusable prompt approach to help ChatGPT build a useful personal profile while safeguarding privacy.
Google is rolling out three personalization features: an embeddable Preferred Sources button that returns readers to publishers, upcoming natural-language Discover controls to tailor feeds, and customizable topic-based audio briefings in the Google News app, expanding user control across Search, Discover, and News.
Google Discover will soon let you describe what you want to see through a chatbot-style interface in the Google app, with the AI remembering your preferences for future visits and updating your feed when you refresh. The rollout is in coming days, and Google is also rolling out related personalization features like AI-powered daily audio briefings and a new Preferred Sources option.
Roku’s late-May 2026 home screen redesign emphasizes content discovery with AI-driven recommendations, a prominent Top Picks for You row, and a Quick Access panel, plus a collapsible left menu and smaller app tiles. While Roku doesn’t offer a full revert, users can disable the Recommended rows and Quick Access and set Tile size to Large to approximate the classic 3×3 app grid, with changes taking effect immediately.
A Fox Business investigation finds Coca-Cola’s 18-character can-personalization tool inconsistently blocks religious and political phrases (e.g., 'Jesus is Lord', 'Make America Great') while allowing others like 'Defund the Police' and 'Proud Boys'; alarms rise after reports that 'Pedophile Pride' and 'MAP Pride' were permitted. Coca‑Cola says the issue is technical, has paused new orders, and is reviewing moderation rules.
Lifehacker suggests five practical tweaks to make Gemini behave more like the old Google Assistant: set Gemini as the default across your Google Home/Nest devices, minimize personalization by turning off nonessential connected apps, use Instructions for Gemini to create custom shorthand commands, leverage Scheduled Actions to replace routines, and pick the fastest model (disable Extended thinking) where available for faster responses.
Ferrari reported Q2 revenue €1.94B, EBITDA €755M, and industrial free cash flow €275M, boosted by a richer model mix and a personalization push now representing over 20% of cars and spare-parts revenue. The order book extends through 2027, and management raised full-year guidance as Ferrari launches the electric Luce and the limited-edition 12Cilindri Manuale. Higher costs are expected in the second half (SG&A, R&D, depreciation), while U.S. deliveries were softer due to model transitions and longer personalization lead times, with stronger growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa."
Chrome for Android now includes an Appearance menu that lets you customize the New Tab page with your own background image, preset color themes, curated wallpaper collections, and an option to auto-refresh the look daily, rolling out with the latest Chrome update.
Google will roll out a new browseable Google Images homepage that shows a dynamic, personalized image feed before you search, with real-time updates and user-created collections. The feature is set to roll out in coming weeks for signed-in desktop users in the US (English). In a separate update, Google previewed AI Overviews in Google Search using its Nano Banana 2 Lite model to generate images from prompts like 'visualize' or 'create a visual,' though details on prompts and safeguards are still emerging.
Across professions, women are turning L.L.Bean's Boat and Tote into personalized work bags, embroidering job-related phrases like 'Sue me!' or 'hands full' to reflect their careers; embroidery is widespread (over 80% of orders include it), with bags customizable in size, handles, colors, and text, making a durable, timeless tote a bespoke status symbol as personalization and professional identity trend upward.
Instagram expanded its algorithm personalization to the main feed, letting users select topics they want more or less of; however requests to see more posts from people they follow currently error, underscoring a focus on recommendations, while Meta's Adam Mosseri says the feature—enabled by large language models—gives users more agency and hints at deeper or bespoke personalization in the future.
Instagram is launching 'Your Algorithm' for the main feed, letting users see the topics the app thinks they’re interested in and tweak them—potentially including moods and content types—as Adam Mosseri says the goal is to give people real control over what they see and lay the groundwork for broader, AI-assisted customization.
Xbox Insiders can test features to personalize Home and My Games & Apps with richer artwork and cleaner views, see mutual friends on profiles (privacy settings permitting) to ease connections, add upcoming games to a wishlist directly from the Game Card, and switch to a Shutdown (energy-saving) power option that significantly reduces off-state power use without affecting updates, with streamlined navigation and feedback channels.