Overview
- Google began a limited U.S. rollout of Gemini 3 features in Gmail, including Help me write, AI-powered inbox search and summaries for Pro and Ultra subscribers, and a new AI Inbox view for selected testers.
- The company says inbox content will not be used to train its models and describes a privacy engineering barrier to contain user data, though erroneous drafts and summaries remain a known risk users can review or disable.
- An Oxford Economics report finds roughly 55,000 U.S. layoffs were attributed to AI in the first 11 months of 2025, about 4.5% of total cuts, and concludes job substitution will unfold gradually rather than as mass displacement.
- A SAS study projects generative AI in 2026 will move from tactical content toward strategic marketing decisions such as pricing, segmentation and journey design, with technical skills, governance and ROI measurement as primary hurdles.
- A Seed survey in Japan shows 44.2% of respondents shifting from traditional search to AI responses and 60.6% expressing trust in those answers, reinforcing zero-click behavior that undercuts SEO-driven traffic.