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Most email apps have strong opinions about what your inbox should look like. Notion Mail is the opposite.The new offshoot from productivity app Notion is all about flexibility. It lets you slice and dice your emails however you want: group them by date, create dedicated sections for specific contacts, add notes, or even turn your inbox into a list of action items. Theres also an AI labeling feature that can automatically sort things like package updates or health-related messages.It can feel overwhelming at firstbut so can Notion itself. That hasnt stopped the productivity platform from amassing 100 million users, with use cases ranging from simple note-taking to complex database management. Notion Mail is trying to bring that same level of adaptability to your inboxand the more effort you put in, the more useful it gets.Notion Mail is available now for Gmail and Google Workspace users on the web and as a Mac app. An iOS app is coming soon, and support for more email providers is on the way.[Image: Notion]Roll your own inboxNotion Mails most interesting feature is the ability to customize what your default inbox view looks like, both in terms of how its organized and which emails youll see.For instance, I like having some visual separation between recent and older emails. By clicking the Edit View button and selecting Groups, you can choose a Date view that sorts emails into clusters for today, yesterday, last week, last month, and earlier.Notion Mails Groups feature has some other neat ways to partition your inbox, as well. You can have emails from specific people or domains appear at the top, separate read emails from unread ones, or group by label.Within the same Edit View menu, you can also set up filters to hide or show certain types of messages. This lets you filter out things like Gmails Promotions and Updates categories, certain keywords, or specific addresses.Where things get really interesting, though, is the Properties you can apply to each email. Some of these are standard things like the senders name or labels, but Notion also lets you append types of data, such as notes and status indicators. You can then use these properties to sort your inbox. By adding statuses like in progress or pending to your emails and then grouping them by status, for instance, you can turn your inbox into a kind of project management system.These views arent limited to your main inbox. Notion Mails left sidebar lets you create additional views, each with their own custom properties and groupings. That means you can keep a traditional inbox as your default, while also setting up a project managementstyle view for messages from colleagues. Like the main Notion app, Notion Mail includes several templates to help you get started, and itll eventually let users create and share their own.[Image: Notion]Occasionally iffy AI filteringNotion Mails other big feature involves using AI to organize your emails. With the Auto Label feature, you can enter the type of emails youre looking for, and Notion will try to fetch messages that match.While Gmails own filtering rules can already label incoming messages automatically, Notions AI can make inferences that a normal keyword search wouldnt pick up. An Auto Label rule for medical/doctor, for instance, might capture health-related emails even if those words didnt appear in the message.This opens up some potentially clever use cases. I set up a rule for anything related to package arrivals, for instance, giving me a quick way to see the status of all my deliveries. I also made a Suggest emails to delete rule, then used Notions Unsubscribe button to remove myself from a bunch of mailing lists.The downside to this approach is that it can miss things. When I set up a Florida 2025 trip Auto Label, it tagged a bunch of unrelated emails and excluded a few relevant ones. You can help the labeling by tagging or untagging specific messages, but in some cases youre just better off labeling emails manually.AI labeling is also how Notion plans to make money from its mail product. While Notion Mail is free, a $10 per month AI add-on is required to label more than a few hundred emails or so. That upgrade also adds AI composition features, and provides access to AI features in Notion proper.[Image: Notion]Tying it all togetherAfter a few days of using Notion Mail, I can see how it might dig its hooks in.Its been a while since Ive used Notion for everyday notetakingI switched to Obsidian, an offline-first alternative, a couple years backbut I still remember how it won me over. I started off using it for simple note-taking, but before long had developed a branching system of subpages for different projects, and was using templates to organize some of my product reviews. The more time I spent tweaking my notetaking setup, the more personally invested in it I felt.Notion Mail has a pretty similar learning curve. My first step was to set up a basic inbox view with just a few personalized tweaks, but Ive started to experiment with alternative views and can see how they might be better at organizing all the info thats trapped inside Gmail. And I know that if I keep sinking more time into it, the harder itll get to use anything else.
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Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence supercomputers in the United States for the first time.The tech giant said it has commissioned more than one million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its specialized Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texaspart of an investment the company said will produce up to half a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure in the next four years.“The engines of the world’s AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time,” Nvidia founder Jensen Huang said in a statement. “Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and boosts our resiliency.”Nvidia’s announcement comes as the Trump administration has said that tariff exemptions on electronics like smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until officials develop a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry.White House officials, including President Donald Trump himself, spent Sunday downplaying the significance of exemptions that lessen but won’t eliminate the effect of U.S. tariffs on imports of popular consumer devices and their key components.“They’re exempt from the reciprocal tariffs but they’re included in the semiconductor tariffs, which are coming in probably a month or two,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ABC’s This Week on Sunday.Nvidia said in a post on its website that it has started Blackwell production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. chip plants in Phoenix. The Santa Clara, California-based chip company is also building supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texaswith Foxconn in Houston and Wistron in Dallas.Nvidia’s AI supercomputers will serve as the engines for AI factories, “a new type of data center created for the sole purpose of processing artificial intelligence,” the company said, adding that manufacturing in the U.S. will create “hundreds of thousands of jobs and drive trillions of dollars in economic security over the coming decades.”Mass production at both plants is expected to ramp up in the next 1215 months, Nvidia said. The company also plans on partnering with Taiwan-based company SPIL and Amkor for “packaging and testing operations” in Arizona.In a statement Monday, the White House called Nvidia’s move “the Trump Effect in action.”Trump “has made U.S.-based chips manufacturing a priority as part of his relentless pursuit of an American manufacturing renaissance, and it’s paying offwith trillions of dollars in new investments secured in the tech sector alone,” the White House said.Earlier this year, Trump announced a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. The new entity, Stargate, was tasked with building out data centers and the electricity generation needed for the further development of the fast-evolving AI in Texas, according to the White House.The initial investment is expected to be $100 billion and could reach five times that sum. Sarah Parvini, AP Technology Writer
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Japanese regulators on Tuesday accused U.S. tech giant Google of violating anti-monopoly laws, echoing similar moves in the U.S. and Europe.Google Japan said in a statement that it found the action “regrettable.” It said it has invested in Japan significantly to promote innovation as a technology leader.The Japan Fair Trade Commission’s “cease and desist order” says Google must stop the preinstallation of the Google search engine in Android smartphones, which it said in effect shuts out competition.It’s unclear if Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., based in Mountain View in the Silicon Valley, will take legal action to fight the order.In the U.S., a judge ruled last year that Google’s ubiquitous search engine illegally exploited its dominance to squash competition. Google has denied the allegations, arguing that it’s immensely popular because people like what it offers. The appeals process is likely to take years.Japanese regulators began their investigation into Google in 2023. They said they consulted with overseas authorities dealing with similar cases.European regulators have also slammed what they see as Google’s monopolistic dominance.Tuesday’s move marks the first time the Japan Fair Trade Commission has taken such an action against a major global technology company. Associated Press
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