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AI Security

Instinct's AI assistant can book your dinner and read your inbox. Users say it went too far.

Early testers praised what the invite-only personal AI assistant could do. Then some found their emails retained without permission, and one showed the agent could be tricked by a fake message he sent himself.

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AI2Day OriginalGaming

The new poker professional is being trained mid-hand, not after it

Study software used to grade a session once it was over. A newer class of tool sits at the table while the hand is still live, and it is changing what a serious player practises.

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AI2Day OriginalEveryday AI

The Assistant Wars Broke Cover: Six Stories in Seven Days

Last week AI2Day ran six pieces on consumer AI assistants, up from one the week before. Three separate outlets carried it, so this is not one newsroom fixating on Siri.

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Explained

Why AI Agents Struggle to Search: The Hidden Maths Problem Slowing Them Down

Researchers at Apple ML Research found that the way AI agents hunt through text can hit a hard mathematical wall. Here is what that means for the tools you use every day.

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Everyday AI

Amazon's Alexa+ AI Assistant Is Coming to Your Fire TV for Free, No Subscription Needed

Amazon is pushing its upgraded AI assistant to millions of Fire TV devices automatically. Here is what changes, what stays the same, and whether you can opt out.

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Everyday AI

ChatGPT's Mac App Now Watches What You Do on Your Computer

A new opt-in feature called Computer History tracks your activity across apps and websites, building a personal timeline that ChatGPT can search when you ask for help.

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Everyday AI

Microsoft Pulls Its Animated Blob Mico From Copilot Voice Mode

The yellow animated character, launched less than a year ago to give the chatbot a face, is being quietly moved off to a learning platform.

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AI Business

Apple is in talks to pay news publishers every time Siri uses their content

Rather than a flat licensing fee, Apple is considering a pay-per-use model for publishers whose articles and news would feed an upgraded Siri. The budget could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

3 min read
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Everyday AI

Microsoft Is Merging Its Two Copilot Apps Into One Super App

The personal and work versions of Microsoft's AI assistant are being folded into a single unified app, but a few features won't survive the move.

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Frontier Labs

Google's Gemini app hits one billion monthly users, catching up with ChatGPT

Google's AI assistant has crossed a threshold that only 13 other Google products have ever reached. What the numbers actually tell us.

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Everyday AI

Apple Finally Fixed Siri. It Just Took Long Enough for Everyone Else to Catch Up.

The new Siri is genuinely better. But after years of delays, Apple's AI assistant arrives in a world where its rivals can already write code, reason through problems, and complete complex tasks on your behalf.

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Everyday AI

Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's AI Agents to Work for Everyone, Not Just Coders

On Meta's Q2 2026 earnings call, Zuckerberg sketched out a vision of personal AI assistants that handle your health, finances and relationships. The product doesn't exist yet, but the infrastructure bill is already enormous.

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Everyday AI

A Ring on Your Finger Might Be the Best Microphone You Never Knew You Needed

New York startup Sandbar is betting that a small smart ring is the fastest, least awkward way to talk to your phone, your laptop, and your AI assistant.

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AI Business

Cognition buys Poke for up to $100 million to make its AI coding assistant friendlier

The startup behind Devin, an AI that writes and fixes code, has acquired a chat app known for feeling more like a conversation than a command line. The bet: personality sells.

3 min read
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AI Security

Invisible Text on Android Screens: A New Threat to AI Assistants

Researchers find vulnerabilities in AI agents controlling Android phones, with risks extending to PCs.

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