Everyday AI · Page 13
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live

Spotify Lets You Talk to Its AI to Find Music, Check Your History, and Skip the Wait for Wrapped
A new chatbot feature on Spotify Premium lets you speak or type your way to music, podcasts, and audiobooks, and it already knows what you have been listening to.

Superhuman's AI email assistant is getting good enough to actually use
A new auto-draft feature uses frontier AI models to write replies that match your tone. In testing, 60% of generated drafts were sent without any editing at all.

Spotify Now Lets You Have a Real Conversation to Pick Your Next Song
A new chat assistant built into the app lets Premium subscribers talk or type their way to the perfect playlist, in real time.

India's tinkering labs get an AI teaching assistant, powered by Gemini
Google DeepMind and the Atal Innovation Mission are piloting ATL Saathi in 100 schools, giving teachers a 24/7 planner that spits out project ideas, wiring diagrams and safety notes in eight languages.

AI Is Pushing Older Workers Out of Jobs Earlier Than Expected, New Research Finds
A Boston College study shows workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed roles are leaving the workforce sooner, and the jobs most at risk are not the ones most people expect.

Apple's New Siri AI Arrives in Public Beta: What It Can Actually Do
iOS 27 brings a rebuilt Siri that reads your screen, digs through your texts, and lives inside every corner of your iPhone. We spent time with it. Here is what you get.

Apple's Revamped Siri Arrives in iOS 27 Public Beta. Does It Finally Work?
After years of broken promises, a new Siri built around reading your screen and connecting your apps is out for anyone to try. Early tests show real promise and real limits.

AI Is Watching Both Sides of the Job Interview Now
Candidates use AI tools to answer coding questions in real time. Employers use AI to catch them doing it. The people caught in the middle are software engineers trying to find work.

Meta Pulls Its New AI Image Tool After Users and a Hollywood Union Call It a Privacy Problem
A feature that let anyone generate images using photos from public Instagram accounts lasted just days before Meta quietly shut it down.

Which jobs are hardest for AI to replace, and how do you land one?
From classrooms to courtrooms, some careers look a lot safer than others. Here is what workers and experts told The Guardian about building a future the algorithms cannot easily automate.

Christopher Nolan thinks AI panic is overblown, but he is still watching closely
The director of Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight says big-budget, location-shot filmmaking will outlast the AI wave. Not everyone in Hollywood agrees.

A critic who hates chatbots tried dating one. Here is what she found.
Writer Lauren Oyler went in sceptical and came out with something stranger than a verdict. Her essay, adapted for audio, is a rare honest look at what it actually feels like to talk to an AI.

Lorde told a festival crowd to skip the AI glasses. Then a Meta ambassador walked on stage.
At a Madrid music festival sponsored by Ray-Ban, the pop star called AI smartglasses 'fucked up' and urged fans not to buy them. Moments later, Blackpink's Jennie, a paid Ray-Ban Meta ambassador, took the stage.

Waze Adds Google Gemini AI So You Can Say 'Find Me a Cheap Gas Station' and Actually Get One
Four new features are coming to Waze, two of them powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant. Here is what changes for your daily drive.

Meta quietly killed an Instagram AI feature after users pushed back
The company said the tool was meant to give creators control. Users disagreed, and Meta pulled it.