Google's chatbot Bard wants access to your emails – creepy or handy?

Google wants you to connect its AI chatbot to your personal emails, photos and files. It sounds scary, but Google does a good job of selling how useful it might be. — Photo: Fabian Sommer/dpa

WASHINGTON: Out of many tabs become one: That appears to be the promise of Google's latest venture. The tech giant wants to unleash its AI on your emails, holiday plans and other personal documents.

In doing so, Google wants access to merge your mess of tabs into one AI chat interface with Bard, its rapidly expanding rival to ChatGPT.