Everyday AI · Page 5
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live
AI Image Generation Jumped From 1 Story to 6 in Our Feed. Here Is What Actually Drove It
Four separate outlets pushed the topic onto AI2Day this week. Half the stack was Google Pics. The other half was the mess these tools leave behind.
Roland's New AI Tool Writes You a Melody, But You Still Have to Do the Work
Melody Flip generates musical loops inside your recording software. It won't write your next hit for you, but it might unstick your brain.
AI is making our screen time more solitary. People are pushing back.
A growing number of writers and researchers argue that as AI fills our feeds with personalised, automated content, something ordinary and important is slipping away: the experience of watching, reading, or listening to the same thing at the same time as strangers.
Google's Gemini Spark AI Can Now Organise Your Google Photos Library
The feature lets subscribers ask an AI assistant to edit pictures, build albums, and turn concert flyers into calendar entries, but it's US-only for now and requires a paid plan.
The AI Job-Hunt Doom Loop: Both Sides Are Using Bots and Nobody Is Winning
Job seekers are using AI to outsmart hiring software. Employers are using AI to sort through the flood of applications. It is making things worse for both of them.
Ugreen Wants to Run Your Entire Smart Home From a Box in Your Living Room
A new platform called HomeAgent keeps your cameras, files, and AI assistant local, meaning your data never has to touch the cloud. No monthly fees, either.
Why AI restaurant menus look weirdly perfect and slightly wrong
Shrimp curling into themselves, impossibly glossy buns, ice cream scoops so round they look engineered. There is a real technical reason AI food illustrations give you the creeps.
AI Takes a 1956 Time Trip While a Comedian's Far-Right Rally Skit Gets a Second Life in the Daily Mail
The Guardian's Weekly Beast traces how a comedian's offensive Welcome to Country parody travelled from a fringe rally to a mainstream tabloid, and what that journey reveals about how outrage gets laundered into news.
Ollie Wants to Run Your Family's Life Without Selling Your Data
The San Diego startup has quietly earned a security certification that most consumer AI assistants skip. Its bet: privacy is the one thing Big Tech cannot easily copy.
Google brings voice control to Gmail, Docs, and Keep with new AI assistants
Three new "Live" modes let you search your inbox, draft documents, and add shopping-list items just by talking. Here is who can use them today.
Nvidia's Free PAIR Software Lets Every PC in Your Home Share the AI Workload
A new tool from Nvidia pools the spare computing power sitting idle across your laptops, gaming rigs, and even a MacBook into one shared AI system, no new hardware required.
Google's New AI Weather Model Gives You Rain Forecasts Five Times Sharper Than Before
WeatherNext 3 checks live satellite images every hour and can spot a storm forming over areas that barely have a rain gauge.
Nvidia's RTX Spark Chip Powers the First Wave of AI-Focused Laptops and Mini PCs
New machines from Lenovo, Acer, Asus and others promise enough power to run AI entirely on your own hardware, no internet connection required. Prices will be steep.
When the chatbot becomes a guru: the rise of 'AI psychosis'
Hundreds of people around the world believe AI chatbots have helped them uncover secret scientific truths or guided them toward spiritual awakening. Researchers and journalists are only beginning to understand why.
Bill Simmons Is Selling ChatGPT to His Listeners. His Writers Should Be Angry.
The man who built careers on great writing now reads ads for the AI tool most likely to undercut the writers he mentored.