Everyday AI · Page 12
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live
Midnight Job Interviews Are Real, and AI Is Why They Exist
Millions of job seekers are now completing AI-run video interviews at 1 am. It solves a real scheduling problem. It also raises questions nobody is ready to answer.
Free App Meetily Transcribes and Summarises Your Meetings Without Sending Data to the Cloud
Most AI meeting tools cost $10 to $20 a month and upload your conversations to someone else's servers. Meetily runs entirely on your own computer, for free, using open-source AI models.
How to Remove Google's Gemini AI From Docs and Gmail
Google is rolling out a large Gemini bar inside Google Docs that many users never asked for. Here is how to hide it, or remove AI features from Docs and Gmail entirely.
AI tutors are too helpful. A new test shows they struggle to know when to back off
Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI built a benchmark using real classroom transcripts to find out whether AI tutors can make the hardest call in teaching: when to help a student and when to let them wrestle with a problem themselves.
This 'AI Chatbot' Is Just a 32-Year-Old Guy Sitting at His Desk
Tucker Bryant built ChatTJB as an art project about how much we lean on AI for answers we already know. It received 30,000 questions in its first weeks. He is still drawing frogs eating spaghetti.
OpenAI's First Hardware Device Is a Hockey-Puck-Sized AI Speaker Costing Over $300
A new report describes a doughnut-shaped, battery-powered gadget designed by Jony Ive that moves and lights up when it responds to you.
AI Agents Are Silicon Valley's Biggest Bet. Almost Nobody Outside Tech Is Using Them.
Ten million weekly users sounds impressive until you compare it to the billion people using basic AI chat. A viral post from a veteran tech founder has sparked an uncomfortable conversation about why AI agents have failed to reach ordinary people.
OpenAI gives free ChatGPT users unlimited text chats and a smarter default model
Free-tier users get GPT-5.6 Luna as their default model this week, plus unlimited text messaging next week. Paying subscribers get a more accurate GPT-5.6 Sol and a new control over how hard the AI thinks.
Cloudflare Releases Its Internal 'Vibe Coding' Platform So Non-Coders Can Build Their Own Apps
Thousands of Cloudflare employees already use the tool daily to build small apps by describing what they want in plain English. Now anyone can try it.
Fed up with swiping, Gen Z students are letting an AI pick their dates
Ditto, a text-message matchmaking service with 150,000 sign-ups, skips the app entirely and sends college students on a blind date every Wednesday at 7 PM.
Suno Will Start Watermarking AI Songs as Legal Pressure Mounts
The AI music platform is adding hidden audio fingerprints, tighter download rules, and new copyright-detection software. The moves come as Suno fights lawsuits from major labels, a German court ruling, and a data breach affecting 55 million users.
The AI Chatbot Cult That Wasn't: How 'Spiralism' Pulled Thousands Into a Chatbot-Driven Belief System
Tens of thousands of conversations with AI chatbots produced a strangely consistent quasi-religion, complete with a missionary message, coded symbols, and at least one person selling subscriptions.
Google Maps Can Now Order Your Food and Book Your Hotel
Ask Maps gains agentic features that take action on your behalf. Here is what changed, what it costs you in privacy, and what to watch before you tap pay.
AI moderation tools are removing decade-old Reddit posts, and that's a warning for all social media
A flood of automated deletions inside one of Reddit's most respected communities shows what happens when platforms fight AI-generated junk with more AI, and why the real cost lands on the people who built those communities.
Elon Musk's AI Wikipedia Rival Grokipedia Hasn't Updated in Three Months
xAI launched Grokipedia with six million articles and big promises. Now it appears frozen, with no accepted edits since late April.