Overview
- Gmail’s new AI Inbox prioritizes messages, generates summaries, suggests tasks, and surfaces urgent items without replacing the classic view.
- 'AI Overviews,' 'Proofread,' upgraded 'Suggested Replies,' and 'Help Me Write' are integrated, with several capabilities that were paid now free for consumer accounts.
- The initial release targets U.S. trusted testers using consumer Gmail in the browser, with Workspace accounts excluded at launch and wider availability planned later.
- Google says Gemini processes email content and metadata in its cloud and says those data are not used to train its models, intensifying user questions about data handling.
- Separately, Google will let users change their primary Gmail address under limited rules, with the old address still receiving mail as the company urges stronger protections like two‑factor authentication, passkeys, and disposable aliases.