Everyday AI · Page 8
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live
A 23-year-old's AI assistant startup just hit a $2.5 billion valuation after raising $250 million
Instinct, the life-organising AI app from Spear Street Technology, closed a $250 million Series B round this week. The app is still invite-only, and privacy worries are already swirling.
Growing Up Alongside AI: What Parents Are Getting Right (and Wrong)
One parent's journey from oversharing online to flip phones and back again holds a lesson for every family trying to raise kids in an AI-saturated world.
Claude Now Shares Its Memory Across Chat and Its AI Agent, No More Rebriefing
Anthropic has merged the memory systems in Claude's chat and its Cowork agent, so the assistant carries what it learns from one into the other. Users can read, edit, or delete exactly what Claude has stored.
Google Search Wants to Redecorate Your Living Room With AI
From mocking up an emerald sofa in your actual lounge to tracking down that vintage rug you spotted on the bus, Google's search tools are quietly turning into a home-decor assistant.
Google Search now leads with AI answers. Is that better or worse for you?
The familiar list of blue links hasn't disappeared, but it's no longer the first thing you see. Here's what the change actually means for how you find information.
AI in the Classroom: How One School Stopped Panicking and Started Teaching With It
Cheshire Academy in Connecticut tried banning AI, then tried ignoring it. Neither worked. Here's what they're doing instead.
Harvard Business School Is Using AI Avatars to Coach Its $699 Startup Bootcamp Students
A digital copy of a real venture capital investor is now giving feedback to budding entrepreneurs. Students say they like it. The investor admits it is a little creepy.
Hollywood writers and directors are training AI to replace them, and getting paid to do it
Award-winning screenwriters and producers are taking gig work teaching AI systems their craft, earning between $12 and $200 an hour, in what one creative called digging the grave of their own profession.
LinkedIn's 'AI Slop' Button Has Been Clicked Over a Million Times
The platform says views on posts flagged as AI-generated have dropped 40 percent in just a few weeks, as users take the fight against filler content into their own hands.
From a Village With One TV to Building AI Tools in Milwaukee
Balaji Ingole grew up in rural India without a computer in sight. Now he's using AI agents to cut months of e-commerce grunt work down to days.
You probably can't tell when someone's Meta AI glasses are recording you
Smart glasses are showing up in schools, courts and restaurants. Bans are spreading, but spotting a pair in the wild is harder than you'd think.
ChatGPT Can Now Read, Send, and Delete Your Apple Messages
OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT draft texts, search your message history, and hit send on your behalf. Handy? Yes. Worth a close look at the privacy small print? Also yes.
Google Discover Is Getting an AI Chat Box So You Can Just Tell It What You Want
A new chatbot-style panel in the Google app will let you describe your ideal feed in plain English, and Google's AI will adjust it on the spot.
Google Lets Publishers Add a 'Favourite Source' Button to Fight AI Search Traffic Losses
A new embeddable button lets readers tell Google which news sites they trust, nudging the algorithm to show those sites more often in Search, Discover and Google News.
One in three web pages published since ChatGPT launched now shows signs of AI authorship
A Pew Research study of nearly half a million web pages found that 35% of those published after November 2022 carry signs of AI writing, arriving just after Cloudflare confirmed bots now outnumber humans in web traffic.