Gmail, AI Inbox
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Google is rolling out a major Gemini-powered overhaul of Gmail, with Sundar Pichai calling it the service’s biggest shift yet. The update turns Gmail into an AI-first inbox that summarises threads, drafts replies,
Emoji reactions have been hiding at the bottom of your personal Gmail messages for over two years, and now they’re coming to Workspace by default.
The aim is to transform Gmail from a traditional inbox into what Google describes as a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.”
“IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail,” engineering YouTuber Davey Jones wrote in a viral X PSA on this alleged digital Trojan Horse. “You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.”
Send a Gmail message with a different date and time if you want to create a message now but don't want to send it until later. Gmail's "Drafts" feature allows you to compose and format an email, but save it and send it at a later date rather than at the ...