"AI Inbox is like having a personalized briefing, highlighting to-dos and catching you up on what matters,"
"It helps you prioritize, identifying your VIPs based on signals like people you email frequently, those in your contacts list and relationships it can infer from message content."
"Despite the continued spread of generative AI features, the underlying reliability of these tools remains iffy," Rogers writes. "Back in 2023, when Google's chatbot was still called 'Bard,' I tested the company's nascent Gmail extension that tried to summarize my m"
Google is testing an AI Inbox tab for Gmail that analyzes email content, summarizes messages, and suggests action items and topics to catch up on. The feature identifies VIP contacts using signals such as frequent correspondents, contact-list membership, and inferred relationships from message content. The AI Inbox is currently limited to trusted testers and will expand more broadly in coming months. Google states user emails will not be used to train Gemini and that users can opt out when the feature becomes public. Handling of newsletters and presentation of news alerts remains unspecified, and earlier email-summarization tools showed unreliable results in prior tests.
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