Everyday AI
the assistants, apps and tricks changing how ordinary people work, learn and live
Meta Is Testing an AI App That Writes Bedtime Stories for Your Kids
StoryKit lets parents generate personalised children's stories at the tap of a button. But is handing the world's oldest human tradition to a chatbot actually a good idea?
Neill Blomkamp Made a 13-Minute AI Film. Critics Say It Shows the Limits, Not the Promise.
District 9's director used ByteDance's video generator to create Nightborne, a sci-fi short built entirely from AI-generated clips. The result has sparked more backlash than buzz.
Substack Now Lets Readers Scan Posts for AI-Written Text
A new detection tool built into Substack will estimate how much of any post was written by AI, giving readers a way to check before they invest their time.
Halliday Gen 2 Smart Glasses Put AI Meeting Notes in Your Field of View
The second-generation glasses ditch the fiddly hidden display for a proper dual-screen setup, and aim to keep workers informed during meetings without touching a phone or laptop.
A Cheap Chinese AI Model Is Making Coders Rethink Their Bills
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 costs a fraction of Anthropic's top models and handles real work. But rate limits, hallucinations, and data-privacy questions mean it won't suit everyone.
Young Adults Are Turning to AI for Emotional Intimacy. Should We Be Concerned?
A new wave of AI companion apps is filling a loneliness gap that many in their twenties say their human relationships no longer can. One reporter who has covered Gen Z for four years says she has watched the shift happen in real time.
Handmade Artists Are Leaving Etsy as AI-Generated Art Floods the Platform
Once a haven for human-made crafts, Etsy is losing its most loyal sellers to cheap AI art they say Etsy refuses to police.
Adobe's Experimental Camera App Will Now Critique Your Photos Like a Pro
Project Indigo uses AI to tell you what's wrong with your shot, what to remove from the frame, and how to reshoot it. Here's what that looks like in practice.
AI Is Changing Who Gets Hired and Who Gets Left Behind
Job anxiety is spreading across every age group and profession. Here is what that shift actually looks like for ordinary workers, and what it means for the people caught in it.
Adobe's Indigo Camera App Adds AI Editing Tools, But Skips Its Own AI Models
The iPhone app that promised a film-camera feel is testing generative AI photo editing powered by Google, not Adobe's own technology.
A Struggling Artist Used Suno Hundreds of Times on One Song. The Result Actually Works.
1010Benja fed his own vocals and lyrics into an AI music tool, edited the output, fed it back in, and repeated that cycle roughly three hundred times. The song is good. That is the uncomfortable part.
AI is cutting jobs. Here are the human skills that still matter
A public sector worker facing his second restructure in two years puts a face on a fear millions share. Experts say three skills can keep you ahead.
The best note-taking apps, photo tools, and reading gear people are actually using right now
A roundup of real reader favourites, from Bear's clever new Workspaces update to the apps quietly replacing expensive Adobe software.
Google Just Changed How It Counts Your Gemini AI Usage. Here Is What You Actually Get Now.
Google switched from counting requests to measuring computing power. That sounds technical, but it has a practical effect: you may run out of AI credits faster than you expect, and the new rules are deliberately vague.
Vertu's $6,880 AI Phone Promised to Replace an Executive Assistant. We Tested It.
The Alphafold is wrapped in calfskin leather and titanium, and its AI agent can handle real workflows. But does it do them well enough to justify the price?