personalization
Google adds an ad-personalization exception for connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data News
Google’s October 16 privacy policy permits connected private-service data to inform ad-supporting services when users choose to make it available.
Shopping-agent study finds wealth clues can override a request for the cheapest option News
A controlled study found personal AI agents recommending pricier fixed-catalog options to wealthy personas, sometimes despite explicit cheapest-option instructions.
DraftKings reportedly tested AI promotions aimed at more profitable betting News
The New York Times reports that DraftKings tested a model to identify customers whose gambling and losses would respond most profitably to promotions, while public filings confirm AI-personalized marketing at scale.
Models invent about 40 percent of what they claim to know about you News
A new study measuring 12 language models across more than 143,000 judged claims found every one of them invented or stereotyped between 35 and 49 percent of what it asserted about a user, and that the models most confident they were being careful were the ones fabricating most.
A New Benchmark Asks Whether a Coding Agent Can Stop Asking News
CAPA tests whether an assistant that has watched one developer resolve the same ambiguity before can write the intended code without asking again, and finds that the best model still needs a clarification round on four sessions in ten.