Good morning, Ishan. Google's taken a slower, measured approach to weaving Gemini into its flagshipproducts, but the pace is now picking up.
Gmail just landed a wave of new features, including AI Mode for search, a proactive AI inbox, and more a signal that the deeper integrations into Google's massive product ecosystem may finally be accelerating.
In today’s AI rundown:
Gmail gets Gemini-powered AI features
Microsoft turns Copilot into a checkout counter
Use Gemini 3 to build powerful simulations
Major Chinese AI lab goes public
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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Gmail gets Gemini powered AI Feature
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The Edusmark AI: Google just introduced a wave of new Gemini AI upgrades to Gmail, enabling users to ask natural language questions about their inbox, get automatic summaries, and take more proactive actions across the platform.
The details:
An integrated AI Overviews feature lets users search the inbox through natural language instead of hunting through keywords or opening dozens of emails.
A new ‘AI Inbox’ acts as a personal assistant, surfacing the most important messages and crafting to-do lists and reminders.
Other additions include a Grammarly-style proofreader (Pro / Ultra only), expanded Help Me Write access, and Suggested Replies for quick responses.
Why it matters: Google has been sprinkling AI into Gmail for years, but this is the most aggressive push yet. It’s been relatively slow in intertwining Gemini with its highly used products and platforms, but 2026 (like Rowan predicted in our Monday Roundtable) could be the year the integrations ramp up and actually become a major advantage.
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Until next week,
The Edusmark AI