Announced at Google I/O, soon Gmail will be able to write whole emails for you, with just a few keystrokes. Pulling from your vast Gmail message history, Smart Compose will be able to help you put together an email by suggesting whole phrases when you start typing them.
“Last year, we introduced Smart Reply in Gmail to help you quickly reply to incoming emails. Today, we’re announcing Smart Compose, a new feature powered by artificial intelligence, to help you draft emails from scratch, faster,” Google stated. “Because it operates in the background, you can write an email like you normally would, and Smart Compose will offer suggestions as you type. When you see a suggestion that you like, click the ‘tab’ button to use it.”
At first it seems like it might get in the way, but as Google points out, it operates in the background. Smart Compose just pops up a couple grayed out suggestions as you type, and you don’t even have to interact with them if you don’t want to. If you see something you might want to type out, just hit tab and it’ll pop into the email body.
So here, you can see Jacqueline trying to email her friends about Taco Tuesday, and Gmail basically writes the whole email for her. By pulling from your message history, Google’s predictive engine could have surprisingly accurate suggestions. Or wildly inaccurate suggestions if you don’t use Gmail all that often.
“Smart Compose helps save you time by cutting back on repetitive writing, while reducing the chance of spelling and grammatical errors. It can even suggest relevant contextual phrases,” Google stated. “For example, if it’s Friday it may suggest “Have a great weekend!” as a closing phrase.
Still, it’s a huge leap forward for email composition, and another reason to start using Gmail’s web client instead of Outlook for work. Google plans to roll out Smart Compose to the new Gmail sometime in the coming weeks.
To enable the new Gmail, all you have to do is open up your Gmail inbox, click on the gear icon on the top right corner, then click “Try the new Gmail.” That’s it, you’ll be good to go, ready to try Smart Compose as soon as its available.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.
Two new highly requested iCloud plugins just got added to ChatGPT, giving people who rely on Apple’s Mail and Calendar services a way to search emails, check appointments, and manage their schedules directly through the chatbot.
The integration is rolling out to all ChatGPT plans, including the free tier. You can access it on the web, desktop, and iOS.