Google is souping up Gmail with features from its Gemini 3 AI app. Here's what to know — including how to opt out.

More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most used email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung informati

There is a support note, if you can find it. Here’s the link. “Starting January 2026,” Google tells users of the world’s most popular email platform, "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP. The option to ‘Check mail from other accounts’ will no longer be available in Gmail on your computer."

The aim is to transform Gmail from a traditional inbox into what Google describes as a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.”

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 rolling out natural language queries with AI Overviews and the new Proofread feature for premium users to simplify your life.

You must be able to decide. That’s Samsung’s message for Android users in the aftermath of Google’s Gmail nightmare, when a misleading story about the secret harvesting of user data to train AI models quickly careened out of hand.