What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?

Today on the AI Daily Brief, what happens when AI undercuts your business model even when your product is doing great? Before that in the headlines, is our AI personal assistant going to live in our email inbox? The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. Thank you first as always to our wonderful sponsors today. That's KPMG, ZenCoder, and Superintelligent. If you would like a blissfully ad free version of the show, you can get that at patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on our podcast. To learn about sponsoring the show, check out a idailybrief.ai. It's bullet three. There's also an email there. And while you're there, there's so many other things that you can check out as well. I announced yesterday that we've got this new strategy compass platform coming, and I am signing up people for the beta. You could also find the link to our AI New Year's resolution community. We're on week two of 10. Or you can find out more about AI DB intel. I've got some big announcements on that front coming up, so definitely sign up there at aidbintel.com. Basically, if you wanna learn anything about the podcast and its broader ecosystem, aidailybrief.ai. And with that out of the way, let's talk AI. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. One of the great white whales of the AI space is the quest to build the AI personal assistant. So many people are thinking about how they become the default personal assistant and what that means in terms of their ability to retain users. And with its latest move, Google is pointing out that maybe the place for that to live is just about the most obvious place you can imagine. This week, Google announced a big AI overhaul for, you guessed it, Gmail. First up, Google is bringing AI search to the inbox. Users can now search using natural language rather than keywords. Google gave the example of being able to ask, who was the plumber that quoted for the bathroom renovation last year? The response will then be an AI overview style summary with links to relevant information, saving users from hunting around for key pieces of information. There's also two new tabs labeled suggested to dos and topics to catch up on. These features both scour your emails to populate useful lists. Suggested to dos will detect things you might need to take action on, like a bill coming due or an appointment to confirm, while topics to catch up on will give you a passive list to keep you up to date on things like ecommerce order tracking or financial statements. In addition, Google is moving more Gemini features from the paid tier to their free product. All users can now use the help me write feature to polish …