Google tests an email-based productivity assistant

In Brief

Productivity is 1 abstraction wherever companies support wanting to experimentation with AI assistants successful the anticipation that they volition prevention clip for users and, arsenic a result, they volition privation to usage those assistants more. Google contiguous launched 1 specified experimental email-based adjunct called CC done a Google Labs experiment.

CC, which is powered by Gemini, tin link with your account, specified arsenic Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar, and supply you with a regular little via email. This “Your Day Ahead” email makes users alert of their tasks, summarizes their calendar, and provides cardinal updates for the time from these accounts.

You tin besides reply to oregon email CC astatine immoderate clip with requests specified arsenic adding to-dos, teaching it to your preferences, remembering notes, oregon searching for information.

At the moment, CC is disposable to AI Pro and Ultra users successful the U.S. and Canada who are 18 oregon above. The institution said that the adjunct is lone disposable to user Google accounts astatine the moment, and not Workspace accounts.

There are respective examples of AI-powered email-based briefs and assistants. Sequoia-backed Mindy, which present works successful the creator and selling space, started arsenic an email assistant. Other gathering notetakers similar Read AI and Fireflies besides nonstop users a regular brief, but they mightiness not person discourse from email and Drive. Huxe, an audio app created by erstwhile Google NotebookLM makers, creates a regular little successful the signifier of a podcast with information from your email, calendar, and quality preferences.

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