Forget to Use a Discount Code, Gift Card? Yahoo Mail AI Can Help (Maybe)
Ever make an online purchase only to remember too late that you forgot to add a discount code or use a gift card? If you use Yahoo Mail, the email provider is expanding its AI tools to make sure you never miss a deal.
Yahoo's new Shopping Saver feature locates gift cards, discount codes, and store credits in your inbox and then drafts emails to retailers with requests to apply those savings after you’ve made a purchase. After is the key word here, and there's no guarantee a retailer will accept your AI-composed plea for a discount. But Yahoo notes that US consumers have $23 billion in unused gift cards and credits sitting in their inboxes, so it's worth a shot.
Shopping Saver is part of Yahoo Mail’s AI beta experience. It debuted on iOS earlier this year, and is now expanding to the web.
In addition to the Shopping Saver rollout, Yahoo is also enhancing some existing email-based AI features. The Writing Assistant feature, which drafts email replies for users in their voice, previously looked through a user’s email to determine the tone of a note. Now, users can specify which tone their message should take, including apologetic or urgent.
If you tend to get a lot of wordy emails, Yahoo also updated the Message Summary feature, which provides a TL;DR version of an email that highlights any dates you need to know or action items from the message. It also suggests follow-up topics, calendar events, and tasks.
Finally, Yahoo updated its Search feature to suggest common questions to help users find what they’re looking for, like how much you spent at an online retailer.
These features are "supported by Google Cloud’s AI technology," Yahoo says. To check them out, sign up for Yahoo Mail AI beta.
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