Everyday AI · Page 15
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live
AI 'Personalised' Children's Books Are Flooding Family Bookshelves. Kids Are Not Impressed.
Grandparents are gifting AI-generated storybooks starring their grandchildren. Researchers and parents say the books are poorly written, raise real privacy questions, and children are simply choosing other books over them.
Apple's New On-Device AI Voice Tech Makes Siri Sound More Human, Without Sending Your Audio to the Cloud
A research paper from Apple's machine learning team reveals the audio engine behind Siri's more expressive new voices. All the processing happens on your iPhone, using a chip you already have.
A professor hid secret text in an exam to catch AI cheaters. Every single one of his 35 students fell for it.
Jason Gibson embedded invisible instructions inside an essay prompt. The results were as absurd as they were revealing.
Google's AI Mode wants to help you touch grass
Search's new AI features pitch themselves as tools for getting offline: finding classes, booking tickets, and planning dinner parties.
A Ring on Your Finger Might Be the Best Microphone You Never Knew You Needed
New York startup Sandbar is betting that a small smart ring is the fastest, least awkward way to talk to your phone, your laptop, and your AI assistant.
Meta AI comes to Threads private messages, starting today
The chatbot already works in Threads public posts in some countries. Now every user worldwide can have a private conversation with it inside the app.
Google's AI search answers now appear in nearly half of all searches
A year ago, Google's AI-generated summaries showed up in one in seven searches. New data shows they now appear in almost one in two. Here's what that means for you and the websites you used to visit.
A $9 physical key that locks your most distracting apps
Screen-time apps rely on willpower. This tiny NFC device makes you physically walk to unlock Instagram or TikTok, and it costs less than a large pizza.
Why Does Endless Digital Pleasure Feel So Empty?
An essay in The Guardian asks why infinite entertainment, on-demand food, and AI companions leave so many people feeling hollow. The question matters for anyone building or using AI products.
Fed Up with AI? Librarians Are Teaching People How to Turn It Off
Workshops showing ordinary people how to disable AI features on their phones and computers are filling up within hours. Two librarians started it, and dozens more have joined.
A man searched 56 years for his birth mother. ChatGPT found her in weeks.
Avtar Singh arrived in Canada alone at age nine, carrying questions he would spend a lifetime trying to answer. Then he tried a chatbot.
Canadian politician accidentally reads out his AI chatbot's instructions during a floor speech
A New Brunswick legislator spoke a line meant only for the AI out loud, on the record. A small embarrassing moment with a bigger lesson about who is actually doing the work.
The Google traffic deal is dead. What does that mean for the web?
Websites built their businesses on Google sending them readers. Now AI summaries are keeping people on Google's page, and publishers are starting to fight back.
Meta AI Gets a Calendar, Daily Briefings, and Mid-Search Controls in a Major Productivity Push
Meta's chatbot is stepping out of social media's shadow and into your schedule, with new features that read your calendar, plan your week, and search the web on your behalf.
Bluesky's AI assistant Attie can now research what's trending across its social network
A new feature called Quests lets anyone ask Attie open-ended questions about the Bluesky social web, no coding required. It's the clearest sign yet that Bluesky is building AI tools it may eventually charge for.