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TTG
4 hours ago
- General
- TTG
Dubai becomes home to the world's largest visa application centre
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Associated Press
5 hours ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Ground Game: Trump and the US debt, the Supreme Court's emergency docket, Leonard Leo and the president
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Phone Arena
5 hours ago
- Business
- Phone Arena
Gemini's next move? Becoming your inbox assistant
Gmail for mobile is about to get a new layer of Generative AI for your inbox. Google is now beginning to roll out automatic AI-generated summaries for emails. This move is the latest sign that Google is shifting Gemini from being just an option to becoming the default assistant for anyone with a Google this change, you could also get a quick overview of a lengthy email thread. However, you had to tap on the "Summarize this email" button to prompt Gemini to summarize it. Now, you won't need this step to get the summary. The Gmail app for both Android and iPhone will automatically display a summary card at the top of certain emails. The key here is that Gemini would decide when this might be helpful, and it should typically do it for longer conversations or threads that contain more than one response. The summary will be shown as concise bullet points. Of course, those will update dynamically when new replies are added to the conversation. The aim here is to keep you informed without you having to scroll through the entire conversation. For now, the change is rolling out to Google Workspace users, Gemini Education add-on users, and Google One AI Premium subscribers. It's currently limited to emails written in English – and only on mobile. According to Google, the rollout should take around two weeks. It's still not clear when (or if) the feature will be made available to regular Gmail accounts or users on desktops. However, it's highly likely that the feature will roll out to those users eventually. Image Credit - Google Luckily for those of you who'd like no assistance from artificial intelligence in your Gmail, there's an option to opt out. Unfortunately, it comes with some trade-offs. Like, for example, to disable automatic summaries, you'd have to disable the entire "smart features" suite in Gmail. The smart features include tools like high-priority notifications, package tracking, Smart Compose, and Smart Reply. The good thing is that even if you disable smart features, you can still manually request Gemini to summarize an email when you need it. These summaries are powered again by the standard AI tech – Large Language Models or LLMs which power other generative AI chatbots and assistants. It seems that Google may be feeding your email text into their LLMs for further training. We can clearly see the direction Google is taking with AI. The push to make AI summaries a core part of Gmail reflects the broader trend across its products that we saw during Google's I/O conference. Meanwhile, summarization is indeed a practical application of generative AI, especially if you tend to have to deal with long or complex email threads often. Having the AI summarize your long emails will help save time and energy. Of course, some people may find the automatic summaries invasive or unnecessary, especially if those appear for shorter messages. Others will appreciate the time it saves. For now, it seems the Mountain View tech giant believes the majority of people will like and welcome this change, and it continues to introduce AI into more and more Google products. Meanwhile, during Google I/O, Google introduced a wide variety of use cases for Gemini, including AI mode for search. With this mode, generative AI should help you with finding what you're searching for faster: including clothes and even seeing how those will look on you without even trying them. Also, the company announced changes coming to Gemini, including Gemini in Chrome, Deep Research, and Canvas upgrades, and even an Ultra plan for its generative AI subscription which costs $249 per month. And it's not only Google that's focusing on AI – the entire tech world is (whether some like it or not). Only Apple is a bit late to the party (well, it partially arrived).
WIRED
a day ago
- General
- WIRED
Your Gmail Inbox Is Running Slow. Do These Things to Fix It
If conversations are slow to load and Gmail's search seems sluggish, you can speed things up by tweaking some settings and doing some routine maintenance. Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff;For more than 1.8 billion people in the world, there is one service that rules them all: Gmail. A primary conduit for communication, the email service that Google launched in 2004 is now as prevalent as the iPhone, a Windows laptop, and the deep blue sky. I created my first Gmail account way back in 2005, and my current account has existed since 2012. My life revolves around email, but sometimes those revolutions can run a bit slow. Hampered by too many emails, I find myself clicking and waiting for an email to open and waiting again to see the attached files. I knew I had to solve the problem. Google doesn't provide a lot of guidance for speeding up one's Gmail inbox, likely because the company doesn't want to admit it runs slow at times. I decided to 'learn by doing' and discovered several tips and tricks that helped speed up the service. Take a Surgical Approach My Gmail is severely cluttered and choking on too many emails and hundreds of labels. I needed to do major surgery. I started by disabling a few extensions and add-ons for Gmail, and then deleting a bunch of recent emails, but those actions made a negligible impact. My theory—which I asked Google about, and which the company did not directly answer—is that Gmail has to spend extra time loading emails and running searches when it has to keep track of years and years worth of very large files. I never delete any emails, mostly because I can search for old tax forms, dig up contracts and even find old photos. It's getting ridiculous, though: I have 652,000 emails that use 162 gigabytes of storage. It was time to do something about it. To find emails with the largest attachments, use Gmail's built-in search operators. In Gmail's search box, start by typing 'in:anywhere larger:40M' and review the results. This will surface emails in any of your subfolders with attachments totalling more than 40 megabytes. In my case, I only found three emails with a massive attachment, so I tried 'in:anywhere larger:25M' and then got nine emails with excessively large files. It was easy to glance through them and determine if they were worth keeping. (If you're feeling adventurous, you can also use the new Gemini AI for Gmail bot to search for emails with large attachments.) Once you hit delete, make sure you empty the trash as well, otherwise those emails—and their large files—will stick around. On the left side, click Trash, then More, then Empty trash now. One of Gmail's standout features is the ability to apply labels to emails to help you sort the contents of a busy inbox. But labels are just one more thing for Gmail to keep track of, and old labels that don't matter to you anymore are just clogging the pipes. There's no easy way to bulk delete labels, so you have to manually remove them. To do that, click Manage Labels in Gmail's left-hand menu bar. Scroll down to your list of labels, then select Remove label for all your unused labels. I removed 350 labels! The emails are still there, but I've shed the weight of those obsolete sorting systems I no longer need. I also deleted very old emails. To find your oldest emails, click All mail on the left, then on the upper right click the displayed pages to see Oldest instead of Newest. Select all emails on the screen and delete them as needed, clicking through each page of emails to see more. You can also use the 'older_than' search operator; type 'older_than:1y' in the search bar to see all emails more than one year old. Try 'older_than:2y' and so on. (The Gemini bot might also be able to help find older emails here; give it a shot if you prefer chat-style searching.) For me, after deleting large files and labels, and deleting thousands of old emails, Gmail ran noticeably faster. One other fix has to do with how many files you view in your inbox. It's a basic rule of computing, especially in web-based apps: showing less information on the screen means the app doesn't need to work as hard. Go to Settings, then See all settings. Look for the pop-up next to Maximum page size and select a lower number, say 25. I found this setting did help even in an older, clunky Gmail account from years ago. Cache Out I wanted to do more, and I was tempted to clear my browser cache, which is a catch-all solution for speeding up web performance. For every site you visit, files and settings are stored locally, and as those things build up over time, they can slow down your browser. There's a downside to clearing the cache, though: you'll lose all your saved sessions and you'll have to log back into all your websites, not just Gmail. Instead, it's better to clear the cache just for Gmail. This might sound onerous, but it's easier than it sounds: To clear the cache for one site, first go to that site (in our case, Then, in Chrome, press F12 (or go to View > Developer > Developer tools) to bring up the developer tools. Click on the Application tab at the top, and click Clear site data. This really sped things up for me, even more than deleting large files and labels. I was cooking with gas, but felt like things could still be faster. Start Over This is a more dramatic solution, but it's amazing how well it works. A few years ago, I switched Gmail addresses because my old account was too clogged. I started over with a new Gmail inbox that was sprightly and trim. It felt like buying a brand new car. Of course, the downside is that you have to let everyone know about your new email address. That's easier than you think. After creating the new Gmail address, go back to your old one. In Gmail, go to Settings and click See all settings, then scroll down to the Vacation responder. You're taking a permanent vacation from your clogged email, so set the date range to run all year long. Type a message about how you're changing emails, and include the new email address. You can also forward all incoming messages to the new inbox. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab at the top, and type in a new forwarding email. Gmail might prompt you for verification from another device to confirm it's really you. Then, click Proceed. Gmail will also send a confirmation email from the new email address to your old one. In your old account, click that confirmation link. You're all set! Everyone will be notified when they email your old account, and you'll receive incoming emails in your new account. Whether you follow these tips to liven up an older Gmail account or start over with a new one, the good news is that you'll notice a speed-up either way. Even my old Gmail account is now faster than ever.
Forbes
2 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Google Confirms New Gmail AI Update — What It Means To Your Privacy
Google is rightly proud of the fact that Gmail remains the most popular email platform worldwide, with nearly 2 billion users. To maintain this position, Gmail needs to evolve, and Google has been ensuring that it doesn't get left behind as AI makes its mark on email, just as it is doing in most other areas. We've seen AI-powered search for Gmail introduced, and I praised the security implications at the time. When Google introduced summary cards to Gmail, I inquired about potential security risks. I was assured that the feature was protected by the same AI-powered defenses safeguarding the rest of Gmail. Now, Google has just dropped a surprise Gmail update for Workspace users that brings AI-thread summaries on Android and iOS, automatically, to any email content where Gemini thinks they will be useful. I have no security concerns regarding this update; however, there are privacy questions that need to be addressed. So, let's dive in. It has been almost a year now since, on June 24, 2024, Google announced it was rolling out the Gemini AI side panel for Gmail Workspace users. This enabled users, on the web, to summarize long email threads and get help with both drafting and replying to emails. For smartphone users, however, the process was a little convoluted and involved tapping an option to open Gemini, which would then show an email thread summary. All somewhat disjointed and far from what you might expect from an AI-powered user interface experience. That has now changed. In a May 29 posting to the Google Workspace Updates blog, it was confirmed that, with immediate effect, AI summaries would be available at the top of the email content for messages where a summary is helpful. 'Gemini will synthesize all the key points from the email thread,' Google said, 'and any replies thereafter will also be a part of the synopsis, keeping all summaries up to date.' Perhaps unsurprisingly, my email inbox has been filling up with people asking about the privacy implications of this new feature. Consumers need not be concerned as this update is for Google Workspace users only, including business, enterprise, Google One AI Premium and those with the Gemini Education add-on. Gemini Privacy Table Google Google has emphasised that, alongside all other AI-driven features, Gmail is 'committed to protecting user data and prioritizing privacy.' As such, Google said, 'your existing Google Workspace protections are automatically applied.' Gemini employs the same levels of security as the rest of Google Workspace, in other words. Interactions with Gemini stay within the organization, Google stated, adding that it does not share content outside of the organization without express permission. Finally, admins can disable the default setting for users in the admin console, while end users must have both smart features and personalization enabled in Gmail for the feature to function.
