Gmail is getting a major AI upgrade. Google has announced three new AI-powered features coming to the massively popular email platform. The company has also made a few AI features that were previously exclusive to paid subscribers available for free.

This is a marked change for Gmail, more than twenty years after the platform launched. It has generated plenty of coverage as a response, but it comes with caveats — only a limited number of changes over a limited period of time. For anyone stuck with their twenty-year-old high school or college email address, it will come as a relief.

Gmail can be a much smarter tool if you enable its new AI features: Suggested Replies, Help Me Write, Proofread, AI Overviews, and AI Inbox are here.

Gmail is phasing out syncing email from third-party email accounts via POP. Users can shift to IMAP, but it's not quite the same.

Google just removed the paywall on Gmail’s premium AI tools, giving you Help Me Write, AI Overviews, and Suggested Replies for free.

Users must manually disable the settings in multiple hidden locations to opt out—a process so complex that even security experts initially got it wrong.

Overview: Most of us still have that old Gmail address we made in a hurry—names chosen on a whim, sometimes a little embarrassing, and occasionally unintentiona