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Have you ever felt like your inbox is running your life instead of the other way around? With emails piling up, important messages slipping through the cracks, and endless back-and-forth conversations ...

Despite Google's long-standing love affair with April Fools' fakery, fifteen years ago today the internet giant was deadly serious when it launched what would become one of its biggest products: Gmail ...

Google Chat is gaining Smart Compose on the web. The new feature will work alongside the existing Smart Reply feature to help you write messages “easier and faster”. It is available for messages ...

Apple Mail in iOS 18 is set to receive substantial improvements powered by new AI capabilities, including more powerful search, generative "Smart Replies," and email composition assistance. According ...

Google's Slack-like business app Chat, previously known as Hangouts, is getting an AI update on web, the company announced. As with Docs and Gmail, Google is introducing "smart compose," suggesting ...

The fundamental nature of automation is this: as speed increases, so does workload. I let Gmail’s new AI write my pointless emails for me How are you doing? I'm doing pretty well. How are you? I'm ...