Google announced integrating Gemini AI to Gmail for more productivity; sparking concerns about privacy and data used to train AI models.

Contrary to what several reports might have said in the past few days, Google does not read your emails in Gmail to train Gemini on the data in them. Google denied reports that email data is used to train its AI models in statements to The Verge and ZDNet ...

Under the shift, which Google said would eventually be rolled out to all users, old addresses would remain active. Messages and services would not be lost.

The new tools include AI summaries of email conversations, a new AI inbox mode, and the ability to get help drafting emails. While many of these features sound useful, they also seem like another example of AI slowly creeping,