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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google • UberTL, Gmail Productivity • Ph.D. Computer Science • Passionate about Android & Web • Love to code @chimbori.com.
Considering Gmail is 22 years old, being part of “its biggest update in 20 years” is an honor! As Uber TL for the Gmail Productivity features team, together with my colleagues from across Gmail & Google Workspace, we have a bunch of awesome updates for you.
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Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
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I posted this internally at Google earlier this year, and was requested by many to post it publicly, so here you go.
Drop me a note if you find this useful. A wonderful side effect of this doc has been that folks I had not talked to in a while reached out to chat after they stumbled upon this doc!
*How to NOT get Promoted* — Having seen so many promo attempts fail because the right evidence was not presented in a convincing way, I wrote up a list of repeated anti-patterns I’ve observed.
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Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,
22.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 1193 🔁 159 💬 35 📌 7Same but with Aristotle and Chipotle
17.08.2025 06:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0/^[A-Z][0-9]$/ ✅
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But have you seen all these Superb Owls? www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/
11.02.2025 05:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As a Googler, this has been my public and internal complaint for as long as I’ve known.
25.01.2025 17:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As a user, this is a welcome change! And as an #AndroidDev, if you’ve been doing things right, this should be a no-op.
24.01.2025 14:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Works on my machine”
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Days after the Virginia Tech shooting, while mourning the friends we lost, hearing Nikki Giovanni speak at the Coliseum evoked powerful emotions.
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