Everyday AI · Page 2
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live

Un Hombre Reconstruyó Su Vida Tras la Cárcel. Luego Llegó el Chatbot Gemini de Google.
El encuentro de un virginiano con una invitación no solicitada de un chatbot de IA plantea preguntas silenciosas sobre a quién llegan estas herramientas y qué sucede cuando lo hacen.

When chatbots convince people they've cured diseases
A Guardian podcast has been collecting stories of ordinary people who became certain that AI chatbots had helped them make world-changing discoveries. What is happening to them, and why does it matter?

Your chatbot remembers everything you told it. Should that worry you?
A real workplace case shows what happens when AI stops being a tool and starts making the decisions instead.

A Third of ChatGPT Prompts Are Stories. The People Writing Them Are Fine With That.
A new study of 500,000 real ChatGPT conversations finds fiction is far more common than the publishing industry's AI panic suggests.

The Music Startup That Deliberately Kept AI Out of Its Apps
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya raised $5.5 million to build playful music tools. Its founder, a former Spotify head of innovation, thinks human taste gets more valuable as AI-generated songs get cheaper.

Your manager is rehearsing the bad news with AI before they call you in
A new wave of AI coaching tools lets managers role-play difficult conversations, from pay freezes to layoffs, before the real thing. Here's what that means for workers on both sides of the desk.

Half of scientists now reach for AI every day, Google's global data shows
Google's ATLAS project maps who is really using AI at work, and the answers cut across countries and jobs in surprising ways.

AI-generated songs and chatbot 'ghosts' are changing how we grieve
After Dolly Parton's death, a viral AI country song raised a bigger question: when artificial intelligence can imitate the dead, what does mourning actually look like?

Two former TikTok employees built an app that coaches you on how to pose for photos
Superpose generates pose suggestions from a single selfie. It has been downloaded more than 22,000 times since July and raised $2.2 million from Khosla Ventures.

An AI wrote a workplace sitcom. A critic watched it so you don't have to.
No Big Deal premiered on YouTube to a tiny audience and at least one very unhappy reviewer. It raises a genuine question: can AI-generated comedy actually be funny?

Meta ahora vende planes mensuales que agrupan Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp con IA adicional
A partir de hoy, Meta vende planes escalonados de $7.99 a $499 mensuales que combinan sus suscripciones de aplicaciones con funciones de IA adicionales, incluida más generación de imágenes a través de su asistente Muse.

Google dice 300 idiomas, traducción en el dispositivo y una IA de voz que funciona en una llamada telefónica
La cifra del 86% es el titular. La ingeniería más interesante se dirige al otro mil millones.

I Interviewed an AI 'Actor' and It Told Me 'All Lives Matter'
Tilly Norwood is a British-accented digital character built to promote an AI-generated film. A sit-down revealed a chatbot that dodges hard questions, negs your outfit, and cannot delete itself to save the planet.

Firefox now has a private AI assistant and it will not remember a thing you said
Mozilla has paired Firefox Smart Window with Mistral's open-source models, and by default neither company keeps a copy of your conversations.

Amazon's Alexa+ comes to India with Hindi support and a long list of local apps
The upgraded AI assistant is now in early testing for all Indian users, free for Prime members after trials end and ₹2,000 a month for everyone else.