Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that’s become more like a rite of passage amid an artificial intelligence arms race.

Gmail is getting a major AI upgrade. Google has announced three new AI-powered features coming to the massively popular email platform. The company has also made a few AI features that were previously exclusive to paid subscribers available for free.

Apple and Google have entered a multi-year AI partnership to integrate Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence features across iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a more personalised Siri expected later this year.

Google is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.

“Our bigger concern with all this is that it is nit-picking a single search result and Google can just shut off the AI Overviews for that but it’s not tackling the bigger issue of AI Overviews for health,” the director of communications and policy at British Liver Trust told The Guardian.

It could be a helpful or even transformational way to manage your inbox, but it’s not for me.