{"id":223646,"date":"2026-01-08T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223646\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:30:08","slug":"google-gives-gmail-an-ai-overhaul-as-gemini-gains-on-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223646\/","title":{"rendered":"Google gives Gmail an AI overhaul as Gemini gains on ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\"><a class=\"inline-stock css-1iix00n\" href=\"https:\/\/robinhood.com\/us\/en\/stocks\/GOOGL\/?source=sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>  today announced what could be its biggest change yet to Gmail, the world\u2019s largest email service. The company is adding an optional AI-powered inbox that prioritizes important messages, summarizes long threads, and lets users ask questions of their email the way they would Google\u2019s Gemini chatbot \u2014 now built directly into Gmail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">The idea is to turn email into something closer to a living to-do list. By drawing on information from users\u2019 emails and calendars, Gmail will suggest actions, draft responses, and surface what it thinks matters most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">Like many tech companies, Google has been putting AI into everything with the hopes of making its existing products more indispensable. Of course, companies like <a class=\"inline-stock css-1iix00n\" href=\"https:\/\/robinhood.com\/us\/en\/stocks\/AAPL\/?source=sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> have promised similar AI integration before and failed, so the features will actually have to work for them to be successful. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">So far, Google\u2019s AI efforts seem to be paying off. Traffic to Gemini\u2019s website increased 28% in the last month, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/website\/gemini.google.com\/vs\/chatgpt.com\/#ranking\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Similarweb<\/a>, while ChatGPT\u2019s shrunk nearly 6%, though on an absolute basis ChatGPT is still well ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">Google is giving access to the AI inbox first to \u201ctrusted testers\u201d in the US and will make it available to consumers more broadly in the \u201ccoming months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google today announced what could be its biggest change yet to Gmail, the world\u2019s largest email service. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-223646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}