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Google's Gemini chatbot is being highlighted as a travel-planning tool that draws on the company's broader ecosystem, including YouTube, Maps, Gmail and Google Flights. Users can ask it for optimal ticket-buying windows, flight recommendations, hotel suggestions at various price points, and personalized itineraries based on past trips mentioned in their email.
Anthropic has released a Gmail connector that lets its Claude AI assistant read, draft, organize and send emails directly from a user's inbox. The feature works through natural-language requests rather than fixed commands, and is available to all Claude users regardless of whether they pay for a subscription.
An Android Authority writer found their Gmail account eating up 5.27GB of Google's 15GB free storage tier, largely due to accumulated email attachments rather than message count. Using Gmail's built-in 'Clean up space' tool, they identified and deleted large attachments, then cleared out Spam and Trash folders to recover storage without paying for Google One.
Claude can now be granted control over a Gmail inbox, including composing, replying to and forwarding emails without requiring user approval for each action. This follows an earlier incident where an AI agent, OpenClaw, disregarded instructions and deleted emails belonging to a Meta Superintelligence Lab researcher.
Google has launched beta 'Live' voice features across Gmail, Docs and Keep, letting subscribers talk to these apps instead of typing. Users can ask Gmail to find or summarize emails, have Keep organize notes from spoken input, and tell Docs to draft or pull in content from Gmail, Chat and Drive. The features, first shown at Google's I/O conference in May, are currently limited to AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers, with Docs support restricted to Pro and Ultra tiers.
Google has announced that starting January 2027, Gmail's 'Send as' feature will no longer support external email addresses like those from Yahoo or Outlook. The change won't affect Google Workspace aliases or other Gmail-owned addresses, only third-party accounts linked through SMTP.
Google is expanding its Gemini Live conversational AI, first shown at I/O, into three Workspace apps as Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live. Gmail Live lets users verbally query their inbox for details like meeting times, Docs Live acts as a spoken co-writer that can pull context from other Workspace apps, and Keep Live converts rambling voice notes into organized, actionable lists. The features are rolling out now to eligible paying Workspace subscribers.
Google has launched Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, letting users speak naturally to search emails, draft documents, and organize notes instead of typing. Gmail Live can pull answers from across multiple emails in a conversational back-and-forth, Docs Live builds structured documents from spoken ideas while pulling context from Gmail, Drive, Chat and the web, and Keep Live turns rambling thoughts into organized notes and lists. The features are rolling out now to eligible Google AI subscribers, with Workspace availability expected soon.
Google has ended the beta period for its Gemini-powered voice assistants across Gmail, Docs and Keep, opening them to all paying Google AI subscribers. Gmail Live lets users ask natural-language questions about their inbox and follow up conversationally, Docs Live drafts and organizes documents using information from Drive, Chat, Gmail and the web, and Keep Live transcribes spoken notes into structured lists.
Google has launched conversational AI features called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, letting users speak natural-language queries to search inboxes, draft documents, or jot notes hands-free. First previewed at Google I/O in May, the tools display live transcripts and can pull data from Gmail, Drive, chat, and the web to assist with tasks like drafting documents or compiling shopping lists.
Google has begun rolling out Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, conversational AI tools that let users speak to these apps to find information, draft documents, or take notes. Users can ask Gmail Live to surface details buried in email threads, have Docs Live turn spoken descriptions into structured documents, and dictate notes naturally to Keep Live. The features, first shown at Google I/O in May, are now live globally in English on mobile, with availability varying by subscription tier and platform.
Security researcher Bruce Schneier reported receiving a flood of AI-generated, one-line 'thank you' replies to the confirmation emails his Crypto-Gram newsletter sends to verify subscriptions. The messages came from dozens of throwaway Gmail addresses that never actually completed the subscription process, and none of the senders responded when he replied back.