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Everything the desk has filed on gmail.
Google's privacy policy, updated October 16, now says personalized ads can draw on Gmail, Drive and Photos data once a user enables Personal Intelligence, reversing earlier language that ruled this out entirely.
A developer has connected a local LLM running on a Mac to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Home Assistant — using open protocol standards — and found it meaningfully useful for daily tasks without sending prompts or data to the cloud.
Google is embedding agentic Gemini tasks into Gmail, per strings found in version 2026.09.28. The AI will draft replies, handle action items, and pause for human review — but no launch date or region has been confirmed.