AI in daily life — jobs, culture, consumer products, privacy, and how the technology touches real people.
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Meta is running its AI experiments like a fast-fashion pipeline — ship a dozen small apps, watch which ones stick. Pocket is the latest off the line. Meta's experimental app Pocket, which lets anyone build small interactive games by typing a prompt, is now rolling out to everyone
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Amazon is removing the paywall on its AI-powered assistant Alexa+, making it available for free on every compatible Fire TV device in the U.S. — no Prime subscription required. The automatic upgrade, which rolls out starting Wednesday, converts what was a $19.99-per-month add-on for non-
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Google and the UK government just moved contrail avoidance from airline-by-airline experiments to the people who actually own the sky. Google UK, NATS, and a UK-backed consortium launched Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday — a £5 million, 30-month trial that will use AI forecasts to nudge commercial
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A demo video buried in Apple's latest macOS release candidate shows the next AirPods watching the room — not to shoot photos, but to give Siri eyes. Apple appears to have accidentally shipped a launch clip for camera-equipped AirPods inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and
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This morning we ran the Bank of Korea's headline count. The note underneath it is the story: the same industries shedding juniors are still adding people in their 50s. A second print, not a first scare On Tuesday the central bank's employment team published Issue Note
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South Korea's central bank just put a number on the career-ladder problem everyone has been arguing about: the jobs disappearing first are the ones young people used to learn on. The Bank of Korea says 285,000 youth jobs vanished in four years — and 94 percent of
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Yesterday the trade could only guess who was emptying secondhand shelves. Today there is a tracking ping, a Las Vegas warehouse code, and a company statement that does not deny the purchases. What the tracker actually proved 404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare title from a roughly
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AI has crossed from the tech page into the voting booth. A Washington Post analysis of more than 1,200 active-candidate websites finds artificial intelligence is now a defining campaign topic across the country — coming up in nearly 40 percent of all races — and much of that conversation is
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The Wall Street Journal this weekend documents how AI has quietly become a fixture of the rare-disease diagnostic hunt — driven as much by desperate families as by hospitals. Patients, families, doctors and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools like Face2Gene to identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases,
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Two stories about the human side of AI today: the field's most prominent advocate makes the case for what machines can't do, and a Meta patent hints at what they might soon do to bystanders' faces. Fei-Fei Li has a message for the doom-
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A new representative survey from Epoch AI and polling firm Ipsos quantifies how far AI has crept into everyday work: one in five employed Americans now hands at least one task to a machine that used to go to a person. One in five employed US adults now delegates at
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Two countries, two AI publics. A Bloomberg weekend essay from Grace Shao puts hard numbers on the divide shaping everything from product strategy to regulation — and the gap isn't about who uses AI more. Chinese citizens are dramatically more optimistic about AI than Americans, and the difference comes