Everyday AI · Page 18
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live
Google's AI Mode can now connect to your shopping and design apps
Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music are the first apps you can link directly to Google's conversational search tool, letting it do tasks, not just answer questions.
Google Vids Now Turns Text and Selfies Into Finished Videos
Google's video app can now generate clips from a sentence and put a digital double of you on screen. Here's what it actually does.
Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and Adds Code-Running Features
The AI note-taking app gets a new name and new powers, including the ability to write and run code in a secure cloud environment.
DoorDash Is Building a Tool That Lets AI Software Place Food Orders on Its Own
A new command-line tool from DoorDash lets developers and AI agents search restaurants, fill a cart, and check out without ever opening an app. It's a small but telling sign of where online services are heading.
Reelful Automates Social Media Video Creation with AI
An iOS app built by a former Snapchat engineer aims to take the editing burden off founders who want a social presence but not the hours it demands.
Voice AI Can Talk, But Can It Actually Listen?
A large-scale human study finds today's best voice models often miss the pauses, hesitations, and tone shifts that make real conversation work.
He Lost a $2,000 Ebike. Then the Chatbots Took Over.
A missing delivery turned into a months-long loop of automated dead ends. His story reflects a growing shift in customer service that is leaving real people stranded.
Hinge's founder raises $18 million for Overtone, an AI dating service built around voice
Justin McLeod is leaving swipe culture behind. His new company uses AI to make a small number of carefully chosen introductions, not to feed an endless scroll.
Apple Rewrote Its Music Search Engine to Understand What You Actually Mean
A new AI model buried inside Apple Music can now match your misspelled, foreign-language, or phonetically typed song searches to the right track. Here's how it works and why it matters.
Google Images Turns 25 and Gets a Pinterest-Style Makeover
A scrollable image feed, personalised collections, and AI-generated pictures inside search results are all coming to Google Images in the next few weeks.
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 generates 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.