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Google Chrome’s New Gemini AI Features: Five Pinpointed Time-Savers for Business Owners
The recent rollout of Google Gemini-powered features in Chrome introduces specific, productivity-driven AI capabilities directly within the browser. These enhancements, now available for most US users—even those not on paid plans—shift AI from a distant tool to an immediate assistant inside the daily workflow. Below is a targeted breakdown highlighting each feature’s business impact, drawn from real-world demonstrations and unscripted troubleshooting.
Agentic Browsing in Chrome: AI-Driven Task Execution
One of the most pivotal additions is "agentic browsing," where Gemini can autonomously navigate multi-step workflows—such as job searches, complex form filling, or cross-site research—without manual intervention for much of the process. For example, a task prompt to identify a chief AI officer position in Chicago and complete an application using a pre-loaded resume launches Gemini into an independent process: opening new tabs, transferring resume content, and responding to navigation prompts.
In practical terms, this makes routine, repetitive tasks—previously consuming hours—something that can mostly happen in the background. However, essential human approvals are still occasionally required, for actions like cookie consent or sensitive data input. The AI’s ability to function across multiple tabs, handle context, and act semi-independently marks a shift in leveraging the browser as a true assistant rather than simply an interface.
Key Business Value:
Delegation of time-consuming admin to AI enables leaders and teams to focus on value-adding decisions.
Reduces the friction of context-switching and manual data entry, especially for HR, recruitment, and operations teams.
Early safeguards prioritize privacy (e.g., restricted password or credit card entry), maintaining enterprise security.
On-Page Summaries: Context-Driven Information Extraction
On-page summaries, a feature now embedded directly in Chrome’s Gemini side panel, offer the ability to distill dense web pages into key points, focusing on what’s novel, availability, and action steps to enable features—all without switching tools.
For business leaders reviewing multiple vendor pages, partner releases, or internal documentation, the AI instantly surfaces needed information, minimizing time lost in scanning or missing critical details.
Key Business Value:
Accelerates review of resources, sharpening decision-making and reducing information overload.
Ensures teams can rapidly align on updates and strategic pivots presented in long-form content.
Reliable and succinct recaps mean less risk of overlooking critical changes or requirements.
Connected Apps Integration: Unified Gmail and YouTube Access
Integration between Gemini and connected Google apps within the sidebar allows real-time referencing of Gmail, YouTube, and more—without leaving the active browser page. The specific business impact is substantial: for instance, pulling up recent company newsletters, cross-referencing emails from the marketing team, or summarizing white papers with contextual links from Gmail, all while on a competitor’s webpage.
Tasks such as drafting and sending recaps, or searching organizational communications for relevant discussions—activities that often require switching between tabs and breaking flow—are now managed in a single workspace.
Key Business Value:
Strengthens productivity by reducing context switching and centralizing knowledge.
Increases quality of internal and external communications, with tailored AI-generated summaries or outreach.
Streamlines workflows among leadership, HR, and marketing, facilitating tighter alignment without traditional digital clutter.
Cross-Tab Intelligence: Multi-Tab Analysis and Synthesis
Gemini’s cross-tab intelligence interprets and connects content from multiple open tabs—enabling synthesis for tasks such as SWOT analyses across competitor pricing pages, finding themes in strategic briefings, or identifying knowledge gaps in a series of internal reports.
Instead of isolated insights, AI identifies overarching patterns, recommends next best actions, and surfaces missed opportunities. For editorial calendars, competitive intelligence, or project retrospectives, this function transforms the browser into a collaborative strategist.
Key Business Value:
Uncovers connections and strategic gaps unlikely to be found through manual comparison.
Empowers leadership to direct teams toward high-leverage, data-backed initiatives.
Enhances the output of cross-functional working groups, increasing ROI on knowledge resources.
Nano Banana (Image Editing) Integration: Direct Visual Manipulation
With “nano banana” now embedded in Chrome, AI-powered image editing is available without leaving the page or uploading files elsewhere. Applications range from adjusting business images for presentations to conceptualizing design tweaks for real estate or product photos.
An example: uploading a candid workspace photo and prompting the AI to reimagine its setting—a boardroom rather than a couch—enables rapid visual iteration for marketing, branding, or proposal purposes. While results can be variable and subject to AI’s current developmental quirks, the immediacy of visual content creation directly in context represents significant efficiency.
Key Business Value:
Reduces reliance on additional design resources for image experiments and social sharing.
Supports faster proposal and presentation development—with less technical bottleneck.
Boosts the throughput of content and marketing teams, allowing real-time visual ideation.
Coming Soon: Personal Intelligence as an Opt-In Power Tool
Announced as an imminent feature, personal intelligence will enable AI to factor in a user’s Gmail and Google Photos history to personalize recommendations, search, and automation workflows. Configured as opt-in, this maintains data privacy while promising smarter prioritization and context-aware results—valuable for executive assistants, project leads, and front-line decision-makers.
Key Business Value:
Personalizes the AI’s assistance for each leader, surfacing relevant historical knowledge and contacts immediately.
Reduces double work and repeated searches by dynamically tying personal work history to current decisions.
Fosters proactive suggestions and reminders that map to organizational and individual priorities.
Conclusion: AI in the Browser as the Operational Hub
The new Gemini features shift Chrome from a traditional browser to a real business assistant—one that acts on behalf of the user, contextualizes information across tabs and tools, and streamlines otherwise repetitive, attention-sapping processes. For every business leader seeking tangible leverage with AI, the value lies in precise productivity improvements, integrated workflows, and actionable intelligence—all surfaced in the tools utilized every day.
For those tracking efficiency, ROI, and the human cost of digital overhead, these Gemini additions deliver targeted solutions—embedding intelligence and automation into the default work environment.
To stay ahead with actionable AI strategies for everyday leadership, consider hands-on experimentation with these Chrome features and align team training to maximize new browser-based AI potential.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- Gemini-Powered Chrome Agentic Browsing Demo
- Chrome On-Page Summaries Feature Explained
- Google Apps Integration in Chrome Sidebar
- Cross Tab Intelligence in Gemini Chrome
- Nano Banana Image Editing Direct in Browser
- Personal Intelligence Preview in Chrome Sidebar
- Gemini Modes: Auto, Fast, Thinking, Pro
- Real-World Multistep Task Automation in Chrome
Episode Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:16]:
There's about 200,000,000 people in The United States who just got a major AI glow up in their day to day, and they probably didn't notice. It's not a new model from chat GPT or a plug in to bundle skills and clawed coworker or some get rich quick scheme to make an AI open claw bot fight each other for money or something like that. I'm talking about where you actually spend your time every day at work, likely in your browser. And if you're like 60% of The United States, that's in Chrome. So even if you are a free user of Google's Chrome, you just got some major AI upgrades powered by Google Gemini. And on today's show, we're gonna go over five of the new time saving features that you can put to work for you today. And we're gonna preview another that's coming that you really won't wanna miss. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:18]:
I'm excited. It's putting AI to work at Wednesday, so let's put AI to work. What's going on y'all? Welcome to Everyday AI. If you're new here, my name is Jordan Wilson, and I'm the host of this thing, but it's for you. It's your daily livestream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday business leaders like you and me make sense of the nonstop AI updates, how to take what's actually important and grow our companies and our careers. So if you and me are doing that exact same thing, awesome. Your journey starts here with me, the unedited, unscripted livestream podcast. But if you want the cheat code, that's the website.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:58]:
Jot this down. Youreverydayai.com. Go sign up for our free daily newsletter. We're gonna be recapping the highlights from today's show in case you miss anything. If there's a link that we share, it's all gonna be the in there as well as all of the other AI news that you need to know for today. Alright. But here's the reality. Google was kind of behind when it came to, AI for everyone, at least when it came to the browser.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:27]:
Surprisingly enough, Microsoft Edge was one of the first that kinda brought this by default with their Microsoft Copilot sidebar. Funny enough, that's powered by Chromium, which is Google's, open source version of Chrome. And, yes, Google did roll out, some AI features. I think it was in the, full, but not a lot of them. That's kind of took a while to get them all kind of dripped out. Some of them were only to paid users, but now even free users, I think, have access to four of the five that we're gonna be going over today. So, this is one. Even if you're listening on the podcast, you can always watch the video version on our website at youreverydayai.com.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:12]:
But I'm gonna do my best to, walk talk you through it, I guess, that you won't even need to watch the video version because it's fairly straightforward. And I'm gonna try to navigate you there, just with my voice. So here are the five features that you need to check out. Number one is agentic browsing in Chrome. That is the game stopping, feature right there. That is the one of the five though that is only available to paid users. Alright. Number two, we're gonna go on page summaries.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:42]:
Number three, Google app integration into the sidebar, which I love, and I hope Google starts rolling this type of integration out everywhere. Number four is cross tab intelligence. Number five is nano banana integration in the browser. And the coming soon, we're not gonna really be able to go over this, but it's a nice segue technically in tomorrow's show, bringing personal intelligence into that Google Chrome, sidebar. So, this is one of those we're gonna be doing the whole thing kind of ad hoc live. Right? What could go wrong doing live demos of brand new AI technology, for thousands of people? So fun times. But let's get into it. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:23]:
So livestream audience, if you could, let me know. If you see my screen, it should be a non personalized version of my resume because that's what we're gonna start with actually. You know, this is one thing, you know, I always get, you know, emails, LinkedIn messages, whatever people saying like, hey. I'm, you know, changing careers. I'm on the job hunt. How can I use AI? There's always a lot of ways. Right? But, ultimately, one thing that's super time consuming is finding jobs that fit your resume. Right? That's a very manual search, and then filling out job applications.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:56]:
So I'm gonna see I'm gonna start with this one. I'm gonna see if, by the end of the show, if Google Gemini in the new sidebar is going to apply for a job for me. Alright. We'll see. Alright. So here's what you're gonna need to do. Number one, make sure that you're, on Google Chrome and you're logged in. Again, you do have to be a US user.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:17]:
And then in the upper right hand corner, there's going to be a new Gemini button. So before, I think they called it the omnibar, and it was kind of like a floating bar. And now it's a dedicated kind of, side car, side panel. Right? Everyone calls it something different. But when you click that in the upper right hand corner, of your Google, Chrome browser, it's going to pop out the dedicated Gemini, sidebar. So you do, like I said, need to make sure that you've updated Gemini. This is new, but it is rolled out, to all users in The US. So a couple of things housekeeping.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:52]:
Right? In the bottom, you can always, switch between the different modes. So you have auto, fast, thinking, and pro. So for some of these, I'm gonna be using thinking. For some, I'm gonna be using pro. For some, I'm gonna be using fast because, through some of my testing, I've realized even though it's not in Google's documentation that some features only work in certain modes, and I'll try to tell you that as we go along. Or maybe they work better, or more consistently in certain modes. Alright. But the first one, we're just going straight agentic browser.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:24]:
We're gonna start this now, you know, put our cake in the oven, and then we're gonna check back on it later because presumably, it would take a while. So I'm gonna go to thinking mode for this. Alright. I'm gonna just start this prompt, and I'll read it to you because we're gonna let it go, let it cook. Alright. So I just have my resume open, and I said find a chief AI officer, or similar position in Chicago, and then use my resume that I have open there to apply for that job. If it's not my resume, please use your best guess. Use the information from my resume.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:54]:
Use auto browse to fill in blah blah blah. Right. So what you'll see if you use this, if it works successfully, you'll see a little icon that says task started. So, yes, Google can go and do this for you in Chrome, which is amazing. So think of any, right. And and this is one I'm just gonna challenge you right now to think of those monotonous tasks that you do sometimes over and over. There's certain things like as an example that I used to love to do that were so monotonous that now with AI, if I'm being honest, I just don't. Right? Like, I used to love, right, especially, like, you know, going on vacation or something.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:36]:
I used to love having, like, 30 tabs open and, you know, seeing, oh, what's the best hotel room? And, you know, I would literally go to, like, you know, four different review sites and, you know, write down the star rating of, you know, hotel or something and, you know, create little weights and little mini algorithms. Right? And I used to love doing that, but it was obviously crazy time consuming. Right? So think of those things, that you do over and over in Chrome that are repetitive. Right? And you'll see now because I'm gonna open up my other tab. So, I essentially had a Google Doc open with my resume. I put this prompt in. I told it to use auto browse, and it actually, opened up a new tab for me. So, for those following along on the live stream, nothing, you know, crazy visual to see here.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:22]:
But, there is a new tab that it opened for me, and it, okay. Great. So it's already needing my attention. Cool. So it opened up a new tab, and then it has a kind of browser icon. So I know that, essentially, Google Gemini is working autonomously for me in that, in that tab. So I did get a notification. So I'm glad this happened.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:47]:
And I could have technically, in my prompting, I could have made sure to this to really, truly happen autonomously even though I told it to do as much as it could autonomously. I could have, you you know, gone through, done some testing, see when it asked me, you know, over and over, you know, what I need it for. So, you know, Google does have safeguards and guardrails built in. The first time you do this, you know, you have to go through and, you you know, grant it access, all that good stuff. Right? But right now, it said to check my task. So no matter where I'm at in Google Chrome, I'm gonna get that little notification that's like, hey. The agent needs your help for something. Right? So, you know, a lot of people are using the examples of booking travel, those type of things.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:29]:
So it's, you know, even if you give it your, you know, credit card information, which you probably shouldn't do, just in the chat box there, you know, it's gonna say, like, okay. Now it's time for you to enter some sort of information. So I'm gonna go ahead and click on that. It's gonna take me to the new, thing here. And let's see what it's asking me to do. So it's asking me to take over the task. Let's actually see. So it says, I need to interact with the cookie consent banner.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:55]:
There we go. Alright. That's fine. So I need to go, let's see if I let's see. It might be done now. Alright. Okay. So I had to accept the cookies, and then I can give it back to Gemini.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:11]:
And, hopefully, that'll be the last time I have to do that. But who knows? It may start going through this job application and say, hey. According to my resume, maybe it's not a good fit, and it might open another, job. Right? But these are things that you as a human would be doing, and they're extremely time consuming. Right? So this is, this feature. Yes. We're gonna let it bake. I might have to jump in, Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:34]:
A couple a couple times. Right? It's it's asking me again, another cookie banner. Did I not do it correctly? Did I not accept the cookies? Let's see. Oh, it was at the top. My gosh. See, the AI is smarter than me. Alright. That's what I get for multitasking and, you know, watching, all these browser animations.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:54]:
Alright. So now we're gonna go on to the second, the second feature here. And that is on page summaries. So, for this, well, we're gonna learn more, about these new features by demoing them. Alright. So now I've opened, Google's blog post announcement. Well, we'll see because I have to go back and, approve, approve something here. Let me let me take a look at this.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:26]:
Okay. I cannot find so what I'm gonna do here is, would you like me to look for other similar roles? Okay. So, essentially, it started to apply for something for me. So I'm going to try to tell it to just, find the best role it can and to not ask me questions. So I'm gonna say, you know, please use your, best judgment, in finding the most, finding a relevant AI job that matches my resume. Please do not ask me any questions and fill out the job application form autonomously. Sorry, y'all. And, without checking on me.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:24]:
Right? I haven't used this enough. Normally, you know, I have some kind of go to language that I know will override, you know, certain, tasks that an agent would come back and, you know, always ask for your approval for. I haven't used this enough in enough different, capacities to know what those are. So, yeah, unfortunately, you just had to listen and watch me fumble through that. But hey. Like, this is why I do this live and unedited and unscripted so you can see what this actually looks like. Right? Because I feel a lot of people who are out there teaching this stuff, you know, they're trying to give you the the the shiny, you know, super edited version, and I'm like, no. That's not how this works.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:05]:
Right. So we'll see if this works. It it was a gamble. Right? I'm like, I wonder if I could start the show and if in, you know, twenty minutes, it could be done. Right? I've, you know, I've seen people apply for jobs before and, you know, people are like, oh, it took two hours because I had to fill I had to, you know, manually put in every single thing for my resume and, you know, you couldn't copy and paste, and it was so time consuming. So I don't even know if this one will work, because I'm just having it find the job. If I found a job application that I'm like, okay. This fits, you know, my my resume and, you know, looking at the application, I'm like, okay.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:38]:
Yeah. This is something, an agent could do. Right? It probably would have been a smoother demo, but I'm just giving it to you real. We're we're trying it. Alright. Anyways, going back, and we're going to summarize number two, on page summaries. So technically, nothing new, or, you know, crazy impressive here, but this is actually going to, number one, help us learn about these new features because I'm, like I said, on Google's blog post, about these features, but also it's gonna lead us into the next feature. So stick with me here.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:12]:
So all I'm gonna I'm gonna do the fast version now. We don't need to use, you know, Gemini three Pro or anything like this. So all I'm saying is summarize what's new from this post. Keep it succinct, focusing on each new feature, how each new feature works, the specific availability of the new features, and how to enable them. So I'm gonna go through quickly read this because for our podcast audience listening at home, this will well, explain all these different features. So, number one, that's what's cooking in the background right now is the agentic browsing. So this is an autonomous assistant that handles complex multi step tasks like researching travel costs across dates, filling out forms, filling expense reports or finding and adding specific products to a shopping cart. Can use Google password manager to sign to sites without permission, with permission.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:01]:
Sorry. That oh, I'm glad it brought that up because that's big. Right? I use a different password manager. So, you know, as soon as I saw this news come out, where I actually knew about it a while ago, but I started, you know, importing all my passwords from, like, one pass to make sure they're safe in Google as well because I'm gonna be using this a lot. So that is the one, like I said, that is the only that's the only out of these, five, I believe that is available to paid subscribers only. And you do have to, give it access for the first time. The next new feature is the side panel and connected app. So that's what I'm in the middle of showing you right now.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:40]:
So the side panel is a persistent, side panel. And the cool thing is and I'm demoing this now. You can slide it across. Right? Because it starts, pretty small, so I can slide it across, you know, so if I wanna, zoom in, oh, that that is, one thing. Let let me see. Yeah. Unfortunately, you can't zoom in on just the side panel. So in my example here, right, I'm using the keyboard shortcut to try to zoom in, because my eyes aren't that great.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:10]:
And it's just zooming in on the text on the actual web page, and I want it to zoom in, on the actual text in the sidebar. So that's, you know, one of my small, small gripes so far. But anyways, how the side panel works is it's persistent. You can use it for multitasking. We're gonna get to that here in a second. And that's already rolled out to everyone. Let's see if I can, go over here. Resume import is mandatory.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:36]:
Please use any of the resume upload options. Oh, boo. Okay. Let's let's see. Right. I should've. This is one thing to to keep a note. Right.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:47]:
So Google's agentic browser is a great I know I had to go back, right to step one. It's different than other agents. Right? Because other agents might be able to, you know, like Claude Cowork, you know, as an example or something that has a virtual sandbox might be able to download files and upload files. As far as I know, Google's agent cannot do that. So I might have to, actually, I don't have to pause this. Let's just go ahead. Let's just download this thing. We'll save it as a PDF.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:21]:
Right? So, yeah, unfortunately, the human is gonna have to do, one thing here. So I'm gonna stop, sharing my screen for one second, as I upload my resume, just so my all my files, aren't showing there. Then I get my life hacked. Alright. Alright. So now I've uploaded that, and let's see. So I can just say, resume. And I do believe, are you still running in circles trying to figure out how to actually grow your business with AI? Maybe your company has been tinkering with large language models for a year or more, but can't really get traction to find ROI on Gen AI.
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Jordan Wilson [00:19:09]:
Okay. So unfortunately, it looks like this example, dang, is one that is not gonna work. Right? Which is is funny because when I started it, originally early on, I was doing a little task before we started going. It started to fill out the application fine. That's what's sometimes, I don't know if it's because the technology is very new. Obviously, Google Chrome gets updated all the time. You know, there was some finicky things and, you you know, being able to reproduce something, I would run the same prompt, you know, two or three times, get slightly different responses. You know, the, nano banana one, which I'll show you, you know, I did it four times.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:47]:
Two times it worked. Two times it said, I can't do that. So yeah. Obviously, when demo demoing this live in the most impressive one, which I have used for a couple use cases and it's worked successfully. Unfortunately, this time, it's like, yeah. I can't, you know, fill out, a job application for you autonomously, whereas before it was starting to do it. So alright. That's fine.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:09]:
It was getting a little buggy anyways. Let's go show off the other impressive features. So, number oh, getting back to number two, the Gemini side panel and connected apps. You do have to make sure that the, go into your Gemini settings, if you are going to use any of the other apps, like Gmail, YouTube, etcetera. So you have to go into your Gemini settings and make sure those are connected. Okay. So it kind of pulls over, your Gemini permissions and connections. So I'll I'm gonna show you here in a minute, what that looks like, how it works, and why you might wanna use it.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:45]:
But, yes, if you haven't set that up in Gemini, you will have to do that for that feature to work. Alright. Number three, going over the recap of this blog post is Nano Banana. Super straightforward, but the great thing is, right, normally, if you're working with nano banana, you would have to go into Gemini. So if there's an image on your company's website as an example, and you're like, oh, man. We could use, you know, nano banana to, you know, do this, you know, make this a little different. You might take take it from your website, you know, download it, go log in to Gemini. If you're not logged in, click upload, you know, go in the lower right hand corner, make sure you click pro to get Google Gemini, nano banana.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:26]:
Right? Go through the process, blah blah blah. Now you can just do it in the browser, and that's it. So it is seamless. It is great. Next, this is not coming yet. This is technically number six on our list. The one that's coming next is personal intelligence. I'll talk about that later.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:42]:
And that's that's really, and then they also introduced, a universal commerce protocol, which is not really relevant to the topic of today's show. Okay. So that is on our list. Number two, the on page summaries. Like I said, nothing new there, but let's take it now, to, well, the next level and go over our, third kind of, step here or our third, different, thing that's gonna be able to save you a lot of time. And that feature is bringing in the different apps. So let me give you an example so I don't have to paste this. I'm saying I am still on the same Google Chrome web page.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:28]:
So just give me the summary. And I said, was this covered in the everyday AI newsletter recently in my Gmail? So you'll see this has access to my Gmail, and I don't have to context switch either. Okay? Now you can think if you're, put your work hat on, why this might be helpful. Right? Especially if you do read a lot of newsletters or if you're reading something, you know, I don't know. One of your competitors, white papers that they just put out as an example. And you're like, wait. You know, I think the marketing team emailed me about something similar last week. Right? Think just the amount of time that you lose from having a context switch, that's where distraction comes in.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:15]:
Right? So much of these new features, in, Google's, Chrome browser are so good because, well, they keep you focused, and it keeps you from losing all of that time from context switching. Right? And you'll see here it went through and it properly, pulled out the newsletter from last week when we did cover all of this information, which is great. And then I can always click learn more. I can go click on that, and it's going to take me straight to that email, which is really, really nice. Right? It save a ton of time, from having to, you know, click around and and find different things. It's like I said, it's such that piece is a good feature, but that's not the only way that you can integrate, Google's different apps inside of the new Gemini side panel. So next one, I'm gonna say, can you email me? And I'm gonna have to, temporarily not share my screen here. When I have this work, cause it's gonna put my, my email address up there.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:20]:
Alright. So it says, oh, it didn't great. Okay. Even the last time it did, again, last time I put my email up there this time, it didn't. So what I said is, can you email me a shorter recap of this in super simple language and include a link to the page? So it took what I was working on here. It made a super simple recap. It put the blog post link, and I can email it right away. So, yeah, like I said last time, it auto filled my personal Gmail in there, which is what I was asking it to do this time.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:56]:
It just put userexample.com, but the cool thing is, yes, you can send emails now in the sidebar. You don't have to wait. So that's the great, a great new time saving feature, of this is being able to actually get tasks done in the sidebar. Very cool. Alright. So let's go on to number four, and that is cross tab intelligence. I'm so bummed out that my, that the the agent refused to do a job that it previously did. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:29]:
Anyways, so now for this one, I am going to the everyday AI website. I'm on the episodes page. So I am going to click the, oh, look at that. That's fine. I accidentally just brought up the other email. That's okay. All right. Anyways, I am now on the episodes page, on the, your everyday AI website.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:56]:
So if you listen to the show, we've been doing this new start here series, which I hope you all have been enjoying, but, maybe you've been listening to them all and you're like, oh, wait. You know, I think I remember something from, you know, one of these episodes, but I'm not quite sure. Right? Or, you know, this is something that happens to me all the time. I'm like, I remember the source it was from. I'm not really sure where. I wanna go back and double check something. Alright. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna open a bunch of tabs in Chrome.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:24]:
So I'm gonna open all of our start here, series, all in new tabs. Alright. And you'll see here. Well, for our live stream audience, it went from, when I did the blog post, at the bottom, when you enter in your prompt in the search bar in the lower right hand corner of this of the, the new persistent sidebar there, it would say, you know, that you're talking or sharing one tab. So now because I enabled Gemini on this tab, and then within enabled, I started opening new tabs. It's automatically going to allow me to chat with all of those tabs. But then at any time, right, so I have my, you know, resume, tab open in Google Docs. I can click the at one, and then I can go click that, right, the Jordan Wilson resume.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:22]:
And now I'm also chatting with that tab. I don't want that, so I'm gonna go ahead and delete that. So let me go open the last two. So that was 698695. There we go. Okay. So now, what's great? I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna switch this to, thinking mode here.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:42]:
Might be a little better. So here's what I'm saying now. I said, can you find common threads and themes across these five podcast episodes? Also based on the continuity and progression of the episodes, can you suggest three topics to hand to tackle next? So this is great. Right? Because you might be thinking, okay. Yeah. I don't need to summarize everything. Okay. What about, finding connections between different articles or between different competitors.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:13]:
Let's think about that. What if you bring up, you know, your five closest competitors, their pricing pages, and and yours as well, and say, hey. Find you know, run a SWAT on all of these tabs on the pricing. Right? There's so much more that you can do. Right? It's not just the text that's on the page when you're using some of the world's most powerful technology. It is the synthesis of information. It is the personalizing, of information, but it's also the context between all of those and connecting the dots. That's where it's really powerful.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:49]:
So it it went through, pretty cool here. So it found three common, threads and themes, that I talked about, at least in multiple episodes, which is the shift from operator to orchestrator. Okay. I could probably do an episode just on that. The second one it found across the five episodes was context engineering as the as the primary differentiator. And then number three, it said AI as background infrastructure, the invisible layer. Alright? And then it actually has a nice little kind of graph for me. And then it also gave me, three topics that I could tackle next.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:28]:
So, again, it's not just, you know, recapping. Right? It's like, okay. What's the big deal? There's so many different, you know, AI browser extensions or, you know, all the browsers you can recap information. Right? This is really cross tab intelligence. It's finding those common threads, finding, you know, weaknesses, finding what you should do next. So, at least according to Google Gemini, live stream on it. So let me know. Should I do one of these next for our, our next start here series.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:01]:
Number one, the economics of AI measuring real ROI. Number two, the agentic browser life beyond search. Or number three, oh, I kinda like this, scaling the AI champion. I like this. So it found kind of some common threads that I maybe talked about, but didn't dive deeper into that it might make sense for this to be, the, you know, one of the next episodes that we do, in the series. So pretty cool. Alright. That is number four.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:31]:
Let's we're gonna go ahead and wrap this show here with number five. Let's hope this works, because, again, this is one of those kinda worked, kinda didn't. Alright. So for this one now, I am still sharing my screen. I'm in our, our community, our inner circle community. We're gonna be opening up, access to more people, so make sure, you stay tuned to our newsletter for the announcement on that. Alright. But, essentially, I have a photo, here that I shared, in our open space circle.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:00]:
A little project I'm working on. I'll probably share about this a little more, but, essentially, there's a, a videographer filming me typing on my computer. Alright. So, maybe I might wanna use this. Right? But maybe make some tweaks to it. So, let's just do a little example here. So I have the image up. I didn't have to save it.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:20]:
I don't have to download it. I don't have to do anything special. Right? I'm just gonna click Gemini. I'm gonna change to, I'm gonna I think I think I did in thinking mode last time. We'll see. I know pro usually, launches, nano banana pro. For some reason, I think it was only firing on thinking. We'll see.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:42]:
Alright. So I have a little prompt here. And I just said using nano banana pro, can you edit the photo in the browser? Please keep the people in the exact same pose, but instead put them in a boardroom with a similar feel. So, hopefully, this works. It worked once right before I did this, but, yeah, this is just a photo of me. You know, obviously, you know, this is a major organization that I was working with, so, I wouldn't do this. It didn't it didn't turn out, it didn't turn out as well, as it did last time. I'm actually gonna, retry this one.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:19]:
So it put me in a boardroom, but it kept kind of, the couch in there, that I was on. So I will say, you know, remove the couch. Someone's gonna say remove the couch and have me sitting on, sitting on chair, at the boardroom table. We'll see if that works. All right. Yeah. It's one of those things, you know, especially obviously with something like image generation, you're obviously gonna get you know, wildly different results. But, you know, like I said earlier, the very first one that I was doing the, kind of agentic browsing inside Chrome to do a job application, it started to fill it out fine.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:57]:
And then, you know, when I actually hit, you know, okay. Let's go live. It's like, yeah, maybe maybe not. So, interestingly enough, this time, it okay. So it created a fairly okay looking photo. It just did it from a different angle. But, you know, it kind kinda looks like me. The videographer kinda looks the same, but it looks like a real photo at least.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:21]:
So, did a pretty good job. I probably was some better prompting. You know, I probably should've said, you know, don't change the, proportions or anything like that. But it kept everything else the exact same even kind of the, you know, technically, the pose I was doing and, you know, the videographer's position, she was over my left shoulder, you know, shooting down at my, you know, as I was typing. So it kept technically everything to save. It just completely changed, the proportions. But there you go. You know, I didn't have to, you know, download it, go, you know, log in to Google Gemini, go upload it and do all that.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:53]:
You can just do it right there. So, obviously, a ton of great use cases for this. You know, what I've seen a lot of people talking about online is, you know, interior design. If you're looking for a house, you know, hotel, etcetera, right, being able to, you know, modify that. I think especially if you're, you know, looking for a house, looking to do renovations in your own home, you you know, it's great to be able to do that on the fly and not having to go through that. Again, that manual duct tape process of, you know, saving, launching into a new tab, new window, download, upload, etcetera. So that's it. Those five though are huge, but I think the next one might be even better.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:36]:
Okay. So the personal intelligence. Well, let me both tell you a little bit about it and preview what we have technically coming for tomorrow's show. Because on tomorrow's show, we're gonna be talking with Robbie Stein, the VP of product at Google Search, and we're gonna be talking about AI search as the personal operating system, the next interface for inter, information. So one thing that Robbie and I will be talking about is, well, personal intelligence. Right? So this is a new feature that Google, has announced, and it's rolled out in a couple different places. So it rolled out in Google Gemini, and it also rolled out in AI mode. So what personal intelligence is, it is opt in.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:18]:
Alright. So, yeah, you, you know, everyone worried about, their data. It's opt in only. Okay? But if you opt into it, it uses your Gmail history, and your Google Photos history to personalize everything. Right? Which for me is a huge time saver. Right? Like like an example, if you're trying to go find, you know, a a restaurant, you know, to go out to eat with a bunch of friends, if you've been emailing about it, if you have photos of the last time that you went out and, you know, you like, Google Photos knows who your friends are. Right? And if you've been emailing about it, it's it's gonna be great. It's gonna know all your preferences, what you like, what you don't like, you you know, locations, all of those things.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:57]:
So, that personal intelligence, though, will also soon be rolling out to Google Chrome in the Gemini sidecar. So not there yet. That's kind of the coming soon feature, but that is something that, Robbie and I are gonna be talking about on tomorrow's show. So I hope that at least going over these five new features in Google Chrome is helpful. And I'll tell you this right now. Yes. It's new. And you see this anytime that I demo and show off any new technology.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:28]:
It's always gonna be a little buggy. Right? But that's why I wanted to show you a live unedited, unscripted look. Some things worked really well. Some things worked not as good as expected, and you can do the same thing twice and you might get or five times and you might get slightly different answers or slightly different outputs. That's okay. This is all about getting these repetitions, and there's no better place to do it than in the browser that you use every single day. And to tell you the truth, right, I had found myself using, you know, Chrome less, than, you know, I was using, you know, OpenAI's, Atlas browser, you you know, with the chat g b t integration really good, using perplexities comments. So I was actually using those more than I was using Chrome, but probably not anymore and probably especially not once personal intelligence, gets released inside of Google Chrome.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:18]:
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