#AI assistants
40 stories taggedAI assistants.
OpenAI's New Agent Shopped for My Couch, Said 'I Love You', and Still Found Better Options Than Expected
A hands-on week with Dots, OpenAI's always-on personal agent, reveals a product that makes real mistakes and costs $100 a month, but one that shows a clear path to usefulness.
Meta's Muse Wants to Book Your Lunch, Find You a Sofa, and Remember Everything About You
The new AI assistant app hit 900,000 downloads in its first week. Privacy advocates say the data collection is the real product.
Two AI Assistants Learned to Make Phone Calls on the Same Day
Instinct and Meta's Muse both added outbound calling on 16 September, closing a gap that rivals had been exploiting for weeks.
Anthropic Puts Claude's Chat, Cowork and Artifacts Into One Window
Claude users no longer need to choose between tabs. One window now handles chat, collaborative work and design, with new presentation and document features on the way.
Slack's New 'Surfaces' Feature Builds Dashboards and Reports Inside Your Chat
You describe what you need, and Slackbot assembles a live, interactive dashboard or report without you ever leaving the app.
Apple's Siri AI: Every New Thing It Can Do in iOS 27
Apple's long-struggling voice assistant gets a new name, a new app, and a serious upgrade. Here is what changes for iPhone owners, and which phones actually get the full package.
Meta's New AI Agent Muse Will Shop, Email, and Book Travel for You. Should You Trust It?
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that acts on your behalf online. The privacy questions are real, and the company's track record makes them harder to dismiss.
I Fell for the New Siri AI, Then Quietly Went Back to My Old Habits
Apple's overhauled Siri is genuinely better. So why did one tester stop reaching for it by September?
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.
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.
MrBeast Signs Multi-Year Google Deal to Feature Gemini and Fitbit in His Videos
The world's most-subscribed YouTuber will use Google's AI assistant to survive extreme climates on screen, kicking off a partnership that spans several upcoming videos and a wider ad campaign.
Google's August AI Blitz: Gemini 3.7 Flash, Pixel 11, and a Billion-User Chatbot
From a cheaper coding model to a phone built around AI, Google spent August pushing Gemini into every corner of daily life.
Microsoft's AI meeting assistant keeps missing its own launch date
Teams Facilitator, the AI that jumps into video calls to answer unresolved questions, has slipped from June to December. Here's what the delay means for the millions of people who use Microsoft Teams at work.
Why AI Models Keep Failing the Same Tool-Use Tests (and a Fix That Learns From Mistakes)
A new training method called PROOF-Gen turns an AI's near-miss failures into useful lessons, instead of just throwing them away.
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.