Gmail Enters the Gemini Era

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📧 Gmail Enters the Gemini Era

🧠 How to Turn Your n8n Workflows Into Smart AI Apps with C1 by Thesys

🛒 Microsoft Brings Checkout Into AI Chat

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

📧 Gmail Enters the Gemini Era

Google is bringing Gemini deeper into Gmail with a new set of AI-powered features. The update focuses on summarization, natural-language search, and inbox prioritization. The goal is to help users manage growing email volume more efficiently.

The Shift:

1. Ask your inbox questions with AI Overviews - Gmail can now summarize long conversations and answer natural-language questions by pulling key details directly from emails without requiring keyword searches.

2. Writing and replies are becoming more automated - Help Me Write and Suggested Replies help draft and refine emails in the user’s tone, while Proofread adds advanced grammar and style checks for paid subscribers.

3. AI Inbox highlights what matters most - The new AI Inbox surfaces priority emails, reminders, and to-dos based on relationships, frequency, and inferred importance.

4. Rollout is tiered by feature - Summaries and writing tools are available broadly, while inbox prioritization and advanced features roll out gradually and through paid plans.

Gmail is moving from a passive inbox to a more proactive system that organizes, summarizes, and assists by default. With billions of users, deeper Gemini integration could significantly change how people interact with email day to day.

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🧠 How to Turn Your n8n Workflows Into Smart AI Apps with C1 by Thesys

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🛒 Microsoft Brings Checkout Into AI Chat

Microsoft has introduced Copilot Checkout, allowing shoppers to search, compare, and purchase products directly inside Copilot. Alongside it, Microsoft launched Brand Agents to bring AI-powered shopping assistance onto merchant websites. 

The Decode:

1. Checkout happens inside the conversation - Copilot Checkout lets users complete purchases without redirects, using natural dialogue to move from discovery to payment. Payments run through PayPal, Shopify, and Stripe while merchants keep full control.

Microsoft says Copilot-led journeys drove 53% more purchases within 30 minutes and were nearly 2× more likely to convert when shopping intent was present.

2. Brand Agents extend AI to merchant sites - Brand Agents act as AI sales associates on a brand’s own site, answering questions, comparing products, and guiding shoppers using the brand’s voice.

 Brands using Brand Agents saw higher engagement and conversion, including a reported 3× lift for Alexander Del Rossa.

Microsoft is pushing commerce earlier into the decision moment, where questions turn into actions. As checkout moves into AI conversations, the advantage shifts to brands that can show up clearly, guide confidently, and convert without friction.

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🚀Quick Shifts

🚀 OpenAI acquires Convogo’s founding team in an acqui-hire, shutting down the product while bringing executive coaching AI talent to accelerate its AI cloud strategy and real-world professional applications globally.

⚖️ Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI heads to a March jury trial, challenging its shift from nonprofit ideals to profit, alleging broken promises, disputed governance, and seeking damages over OpenAI’s restructuring model.

🚨 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer vows action against X after Grok AI allegedly generated sexualized deepfakes, including minors, triggering Ofcom scrutiny under the Online Safety Act and potential legal penalties.

🏥 OpenAI launches HIPAA-compliant ChatGPT for Healthcare, enabling hospitals to automate discharge summaries, patient instructions, and evidence analysis, already adopted by Boston Children’s, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.

🚗 Ford unveils an AI assistant launching in its app in 2026, expanding to vehicles in 2027, alongside cheaper next-gen BlueCruise aiming for hands-free, eyes-off, point-to-point driving by 2028 capabilities globally.

🧩 Prompt of the Day

How to Turn Customer Testimonials Into High-Trust Marketing Copy

Turn raw customer quotes into polished messaging that builds credibility and persuades without sounding salesy.

Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT, then add a real testimonial, identify the core benefit hidden inside it, and let the model rewrite it into usable marketing copy.

Prompt to paste

Rewrite a customer testimonial into marketing copy. Use Original quote: [Insert testimonial]. Key benefit highlighted: [Describe the main value or result]. Transform it into a short marketing message that sounds natural, specific, and trust-led. Make it suitable for websites, ads, or social proof sections. Keep it authentic, avoid hype, and preserve the customer’s voice while clarifying the benefit.

🤳AI Nugget of the Day

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