Yahoo is updating Yahoo Mail on the desktop with new AI capabilities and other features to help simplify email and task management.
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Yahoo Mail is adding more AI to simplify desktop email
Yahoo Mail has been redesigned with a new interface as well as AI capabilities like message summaries.
One of the highlights is brief AI-generated summaries of emails. These summaries come complete with bulleted lists that highlight proposed tasks and other actions. Itâs located under the new Priority inbox tab, which â like Gmailâs â uses AI to highlight what Yahoo thinks are your most important messages. Gmail recently announced a similar summaries feature for its mobile app, but itâs behind a paywall for Workspace and Google One AI Premium subscribers.
Along with AI-powered summaries, Yahoo is also making it easier to quickly access and act upon emails. Quick action buttons will now appear directly inside the inbox, letting users quickly add an event to a calendar, check in for flights, and track packages. Meanwhile, a new persistent âstarred viewâ panel lets users quickly see and access their most important tasks or other things theyâd like to revisit.
Last but not least, Yahoo Mail users can now link their inbox to other email accounts, including Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and AOL, so users can send and receive all their emails from within Yahoo Mail.
âPeople are craving better ways to streamline the daily activities that often bog us down like managing multiple email accounts, sorting out their schedules, reading through long messages, and tracking orders. The new features weâre launching are aimed at making life that much easier for anyone that relies on email,â said Kyle Miller, Yahoo Mailâs VP of product.
The features will be available to new users in the US and roll out to existing US users on an opt-in basis starting today. Theyâll come to Yahoo Mailâs mobile app in the future.
This isnât Yahoo Mailâs first dip into the AI world. Last summer, Yahoo Mail added a slew of generative AI capabilities. These included an improved search mode, the Shopping Save feature to help users find forgotten gift cards and discount codes, and a writing assistant to help users craft emails using the appropriate tone.