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Google to add ‘AI Inbox’ feature to Gmail

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Google is integrating artificial intelligence features into Gmail, aiming to transform the email service into a personal assistant.
New functionalities include a 'Help Me Write' option to learn a user's writing style and personalise emails, AI Overviews for subscribers to pose conversational questions to search their inbox, and an 'AI Inbox' for a subset of trusted testers to sift through emails and generate to-do lists.
These AI capabilities, powered by Google's Gemini 3 model, are initially available in English within the United States, with plans for expansion to other countries and languages throughout the year.
The increased AI integration in Gmail presents potential risks, such as the technology malfunctioning, providing misleading information, or raising privacy concerns.
Google has affirmed that content analysed by the AI will not be used to train its models and has implemented an 'engineering privacy' barrier to safeguard user data within inboxes.