Gemini AI will now automatically summarize your emails in Gmail

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Google is making its Gemini AI assistant a more active part of your Gmail experience by automatically showing summary cards at the top of certain emails. 

These cards are designed to help you quickly understand the main points of long or complex messages, without needing to click anything.

Previously, if you wanted an email summarized by AI, you had to tap a button in the Gemini panel inside Gmail. 

Now, Google is rolling out a change that allows Gemini to generate these summaries on its own, whenever it thinks they’re useful. 

So if you receive a long email thread, Gemini may show you a short recap of the key points at the top of the message, and it will update that summary as new replies come in.

This is part of a larger trend where AI tools are being built directly into popular apps and services, sometimes before they’re fully reliable. 

Critics have pointed out that AI-generated summaries don’t always get things right. 

For example, when Apple launched a similar feature for push notifications, its AI often misinterpreted news headlines, causing enough issues that Apple had to pause the feature for news apps. 

Google’s own AI Overviews in Search have also come under fire for giving misleading or poor-quality results.

Despite those concerns, the new Gemini email summaries won’t replace the current manual options. 

If you still prefer to click to summarize, that feature is staying. You’ll also still find summary tools in Gemini’s side panel.

At the moment, the automatic email summaries are only available in English, and not everyone will see them right away. 

In some regions, including the EU, the UK, Switzerland, and Japan, these smart features are turned off by default due to privacy laws. 

But in other areas, users can choose whether to turn them on or off in Gmail settings under “Smart features.” 

For business users, company administrators can control whether this personalization is enabled or not from the Admin console.

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