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# The Golden Age of Email: Owning the Inbox in the Age of AI

How do you safely inject proactive AI into a 30-year-old legacy codebase? Discover how Yahoo transforms petabytes of unstructured emails into intelligent knowledge graphs without compromising user privacy.

- **Speakers:** [Dana Lawson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@dana-lawson), [Nikhil Gandhi](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@nikhil-gandhi)
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Duration:** 27:19
- **URL:** https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100128-the-golden-age-of-email-owning-the-inbox-in-the-age-of-ai
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