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Google has launched itsexperimental AI app Dreambeansin India, its first market outside the U.S., as the company looks to tap the world’s second-largest internet market to bring personalized visual stories drawn from users’ digital activity to a broader audience. On Monday, Google expanded Dreambeans, available on Android and iOS, to India with support for 13 local languages, including Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali, alongside English. The launch comes less than two months after Google made the appavailable to all eligible U.S. usersaged 18 and older. Introducedin June, Google’s Dreambeans uses information from connected Google services, including Calendar, Gemini, Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube, to proactively generate personalized, illustrated stories about users’ interests and everyday lives, without requiring them to enter a prompt. The app initially featured static, AI-generated illustrations, but Google recently added a feature that uses its Veo video-generation model to even animate images in select stories. Google said it chose India as Dreambeans’ first international market because of strong interest from Indian users seeking access to the app and the widespread use of its services in the country. India stood out for its high overlap of users across Gemini, Gmail, and Google Photos, Google product manager Gozde Oznur said during a press briefing. Dreambeans has recorded nearly 55,000 downloads in the U.S. since its June debut, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower shared with TechCrunch. About 63% of those downloads came in September, when Google opened the app to all eligible U.S. users aged 18 and older. However, downloads dropped 84% month over month to about 5,500 in October. In the first 30 days after Google opened Dreambeans to all eligible U.S. users, the app recorded an estimated 29,000 downloads, compared with 7.4 million for Meta’s Muse, 2.8 million for ChatGPT, 362,000 for Grok Bot, and 155,000 for Claude during their respective first 30 days after launch, Sensor Tower estimates show. However, unlike those general-purpose AI apps, Dreambeans focuses on generating personalized stories instead of responding to a broad range of user queries. Even though Dreambeans supports many widely spoken Indian languages, users can select only one language at a time for their generated stories. The app can draw on information across Google services in multiple languages, but it cannot currently generate stories that mix languages, Oznur said during the briefing. That could limit Dreambeans’ appeal in India, where many people regularly switch between languages, including Hindi and English, often mixing the two in what is commonly known as Hinglish. Dreambeans’ dependence on information from users’ Google accounts also raises questions about privacy and data access. The app usesGoogle’s Personal Intelligence technologyto draw on connected services and personalize its AI-generated stories. Those services can contain sensitive personal information that some users may not want to share with an AI app just to receive personalized content. Users can choose which Google services to connect to Dreambeans and disconnect them at any time, Oznur said. They can also delete their Dreambeans data from within the app. Moreover, Oznur asserted that information deleted from the underlying connected services is also removed from Dreambeans’ personalization system. Users, Oznur said, can tell Dreambeans to avoid certain subjects, including business-related information, and the app will try to adjust its stories accordingly. She added that Dreambeans is available only to personal Gmail account holders, not enterprise users, and that generated stories are visible only to the account holder. Dreambeans’ proactive approach also carries the risk of surfacing memories that users may find upsetting. Oznur acknowledged that Dreambeans could generate stories involving people who have died, for instance. She said users can tell the app to stop showing certain subjects, comparing the feature to controls in Google Photos that let users limit which memories appear. Oznur told reporters that Google is exploring ways to make Dreambeans more actionable, moving beyond personalized stories and recommendations to help users act on the app’s suggestions.
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Apple’s AI-powered “Audio Intelligence” technology for the Apple Watch is now rolling out into beta testing, initially for developers in the iOS 27.3 update, after first being announced at the company’sSurprise and Shine hardware eventin September. The technology includes a set of four opt-in AI features that allow Apple Watch Series 12 wearers to detect important sounds, identify songs, catch up on conversations, and take notes. The sound recognition feature will help deaf and hard-of-hearing users identify important sounds like sirens, alarms, or doorbells from their watch, while the song recognition feature taps into Apple’s Shazam app to detect music playing in the background and identify the song name and artist. However, the more potentially controversial features are those that listen to human conversations: Live Rewind and Siri Recaps. Given the backlash to AI recording devices, like Meta’s AI glasses and other AI wearables, Apple has attempted to carve out a space where the features can be useful to Apple Watch owners, while still respecting the privacy of those around them. With Live Rewind, the idea is to let you go back in time to see what someone just said, in case you missed it. For instance, if someone was giving you verbal directions or reading a long list of specials at a restaurant, you could double-press on the Watch’s digital crown to see what was said in the last 15 seconds as a text snippet displayed on the watch face. You can either view this snippet and then do nothing, and it will disappear permanently. Or you can save it tothe standalone Siri appthat shipped with iOS 27 for later access, which might be helpful if you’re trying to remember someone’s name or take a quick note from a fast-paced presentation. Apple says that users will also be able to tap an “Ask Siri” option that appears below the text snippet if they have questions about something that was said — like a technical term they don’t understand, or perhaps some sauce option the waiter mentioned that they’re unfamiliar with, among other things. When you double-press the digital crown, an audible chime appears and an animation displays on the watch. This is meant to signal to people through the combination of the gesture, sound, and the visual display that you’ve recorded something that was said. These snippets will be deleted automatically after 30 seconds if you don’t save them. The other option, Siri Recaps, takes this ambient listening technology even further by allowing Apple Watch owners to take high-level notes of their conversations. Importantly, Apple says it’s not identifying speakers, saving the raw audio, or providing word-for-word transcriptions. Instead, the feature summarizes a conversation with a short sentence and some bullet points that identify key points. For instance, depending on the topic, the bullet points might include things like important dates or deadlines, pricing or payment plan information, and other factual information. Apple suggested the feature could be used in scenarios like work meetings, parent-teacher conferences, personal training sessions, or other places where you may need to remember what tasks you have to complete or things that were said. Essentially, it’s supposed to mimic a user’s ability to jot down their own notes — without adding emotion or tone. This could be helpful particularly at times when you aren’t able to write up your own notes, either because your hands are full or you’re trying to concentrate on whatever’s being said at the time. The recaps won’t record conversations when you’re listening to music with your headphones or using their noise cancellation features. At the end of the day, you’re prompted to review your saved Siri Recaps when the feature is enabled, and then choose which, if any, you want to save. These notes can be saved to your Notes app or even exported to your Journal app, if they’re more personal in nature. If you do nothing, the recaps will delete themselves within seven days. This reminder to review the Siri Recaps you’ve recorded also appears when you first unlock your Apple Watch in the morning, too. Users can opt to enable the Siri Recaps manually, or they can configure a schedule, such as only having the recapping take place while at work, or making sure that they never run at night. Even if they’re running on a schedule, you can still turn off the recapping feature at any time from the Control Center. Apple notes that Siri Recaps has been designed to omit sensitive information like government-assigned identifiers, financial and authentication data, certain personal identifiers, and any language that would promote self-harm. The Audio Intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 rely on a combination of Apple’s hardware, software, and services. This includes the S11 chip, built-in microphone, and the Apple Intelligence models that run on the iPhone, as well as Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. The always-on processor includes a secure enclave — a hardware-protected memory space that can’t be accessed by the rest of the operating system — where a dedicated audio buffer processes the raw audio. This allows the audio to be processed without it actually being accessible to anyone, including Apple. The audio is only accessible to the paired iPhone through a secure pairing mechanism between it and the watch. To work, lightweight AI models on the S11 chip on the Apple Watch detect if there’s a conversation happening that the wearer is a part of, which is then transferred to the secure enclave on the iPhone. On-device processing on the iPhone turns the audio into condensed text, meaning the text of the conversation with the filler words removed. This condensed text is then encrypted and sent to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to create the recap of the conversation that is sent back to the phone. (The recap and any summarizations used to create it are deleted from PCC immediately afterwards). The recaps you can then access on your iPhone are only accessible to you, not to Apple. And they’re encrypted when they’re synced between your multiple Apple devices. Similarly, Apple Watch transfers audio to the iPhone for processing to create the 15-second snippets for Live Rewind. Apple says none of these features should impact the battery life of your watch or phone. The features will later roll out to the public beta for broader testing before becoming publicly available to all.
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