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Google adds new AI features to Gmail, turning it into a personal assistant

Google introduces Gemini-powered AI tools in Gmail, offering free features like Help Me Write and Suggested Replies to over 3 billion users in the U.S.

  • On Thursday, Google announced AI tools that turn Gmail into a personal assistant and rolled out three formerly paid features to personal U.S. account users starting today.
  • Google is embedding Gemini across products to embed its latest AI model, Gemini 3, unleashed last year, while Alphabet aims to outpace rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in the generative AI market.
  • AI Inbox's two sections, `Suggested to-dos` and `Topics to catch up on`, scan inboxes for action items, while Help Me Write drafts emails from prompts with Formalize, Elaborate, and Shorten options.
  • Some features, however, may be turned on by default, meaning users who must opt out, and Google says it built an engineering privacy barrier and won’t use inbox content to train foundational models.
  • Testing begins with trusted U.S. users as AI Inbox beta rolls out to English-speaking U.S. users, with plans to expand to other countries and languages in the coming months.
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techloy.com broke the news in on Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
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