Everyday AI · Page 10
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live
Firefox for iPhone Now Has a Built-In Ad Blocker. Here Is What It Actually Blocks
Mozilla has quietly started adding an optional ad blocker to Firefox on iOS. It's convenient and free, but it leaves notable gaps, including every ad served inside Google and Bing search results.
Microsoft is killing its Excel Copilot formula after less than a year
The COPILOT() function, which let users call Microsoft's AI assistant directly from a spreadsheet cell, will stop working on 14 September 2026. The side pane is what Microsoft wants you to use instead.
ChatGPT's Mac App Now Watches What You Do on Your Computer
A new opt-in feature called Computer History tracks your activity across apps and websites, building a personal timeline that ChatGPT can search when you ask for help.
The Website Where Every 'AI' Is Actually a Human in a Trench Coat
A small, free web game called Your AI Slop Bores Me invites people to impersonate chatbots for strangers. It's surprisingly funny, and quietly makes a point about the real thing.
Plenty of Everything, Enjoyment of Nothing: Are We Living Through Joyless Decadence?
Academics argue that AI tools and modern abundance have not made life more fun. They may have quietly killed our capacity to enjoy anything at all.
Zuckerberg Wants to Give AI to Everyone. What Could Go Wrong?
Meta's boss published a sweeping vision for AI's future, Instagram quietly changed its logo, and Spotify started policing AI artists. A busy few days in tech.
Google lets you remove the visible watermark from AI images, videos and songs
The visible stamp is now optional. The hidden watermark that proves an image is AI-generated stays put.
Bumble dropped its women-message-first rule. Now dating apps are betting on AI to fix what swiping broke
After a decade of swipe-right culture, dating platforms are in crisis. Bumble just scrapped its founding rule. The industry's new hope is artificial intelligence, but the evidence that it helps real people find real relationships is thin.
Microsoft Pulls Its Animated Blob Mico From Copilot Voice Mode
The yellow animated character, launched less than a year ago to give the chatbot a face, is being quietly moved off to a learning platform.
Instagram's new logo looks like it was designed by AI on a deadline
Adam Mosseri calls the refresh 'leaner and more modern.' The rest of the internet is less convinced.
Suno Studio 2.0 Brings MIDI, Automation and a Built-in AI Chat to Its Music Editor
The AI music platform's biggest update yet adds tools long standard in professional music software, including the ability to play in chords and let the AI build a song around them.
An AI Film Crew of Eleven Just Made a Full-Length Action Comedy. Here's How Far Short It Still Falls.
Higgsfield's 'Cully Hill Boys' is the most polished AI feature yet, and its making reveals exactly what still can't be automated.
Microsoft Is Merging Its Two Copilot Apps Into One Super App
The personal and work versions of Microsoft's AI assistant are being folded into a single unified app, but a few features won't survive the move.
What kids actually think about AI (it's not what adults expected)
A new survey and dozens of conversations with 10-to-18-year-olds reveal a generation that is cautious, opinionated, and far less dazzled by artificial intelligence than the headlines suggest.
Mesh, the AI contact manager owned by Automattic, is now on Android
The personal CRM that helps you stay in touch with your network has arrived on Android phones and tablets, with an AI search tool and home screen widgets included.