How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net

One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. I’m going to make a handout that explains how to do some of the basic AI-removal or AI-avoidance things. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you like AI and find it useful? That’s fine, this document is probably not for you. Additions/edits welcome. Leave a comment or drop me an email.

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google [Updated]

On Tuesday, Google held its I/O developer event, and introduced an AI-forward version of Google Search that the company described as an "intelligent search box" powered by the newest version of Gemini. It turns out Google's all-new version of search semi-breaks when you search for the word "disregard". Typing "disregard" into Google Search results in Google's AI interpreting it as a system-style instruction instead of a search query. "Understood.

Gemini in Chrome — AI assistance, right in your browser

Get helpful AI assistance from Gemini in Chrome. Understand more, work faster, and unlock new ideas effortlessly on any webpage.

Stronger with every update: How we’re making Chrome and the web safer in the AI Era

Chrome uses Gemini AI to automate vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching, accelerating updates to match modern security risks.

Report: Google preps ‘Jarvis’ AI agent that works in Chrome

Google might be ready to share more about agents that work in Chrome and are powered by Gemini 2.0 this December with Project Jarvis.

Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris

Google's first year with AI search was a wild ride. It will get wilder.

AI controls are coming to Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from

AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool

A recent crop of AI systems claiming to detect AI-generated text perform poorly—and it doesn’t take much to get past them.

Bad news for Google — new survey shows 55% of people are now using AI instead of search engines

More users are turning to AI search for personalized responses

Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps

The underlying AI features are here to stay, though

Google expands Gemini Enterprise, consolidates Vertex AI services to simplify agent deployment

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform aims to help organizations to build, scale, govern, and optimize AI agents

Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration, at IO 2026 | TechCrunch

At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

Privacy Considerations with AI Tools

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools come in all sorts of flavors. There are notetaking and transcription tools, chatbots, device-wide agentic AI features, grammar and writing tools, translation assistants, AI summaries, and research tools, among others. As a term, “AI” may refer to features in apps, apps themselves, third-party plug-ins, or a...