Guides to artificial intelligence
Choose the question that caught your attention. Each guide helps you understand a technology, a new development or a change AI is bringing to everyday life.
Three big AI subscriptions all cost around $20 a month, but they shine in very different places. This guide walks through what each plan actually gives you, so you can match one to your daily work instead of paying for features you will never open.
Type a sentence about a glass falling off a table, and a video model can produce a few seconds of footage that looks like it happened. The trick is not a hidden camera or a stored clip. It is a system that learned how objects usually move, and then guesses the next frames from your words.
You hand a chatbot a 500-page PDF and ask where the rental contract appears. Instead of skimming the first few pages, it finds the clause buried in chapter 14. Gemini's million-token window is why that works — and why it sometimes pauses before answering.
You have a page of rough notes and a meeting in an hour. Copilot in PowerPoint can turn that text into a structured deck with titles, bullet points and speaker notes. Here is what it actually does, where it still needs your hand, and how to keep it from looking generic.
Apple Intelligence Clean Up lets you remove an unwanted person or object from a photo with a tap or a swipe of your finger. The editing happens entirely on the iPhone's own chip, so the picture never leaves your device. Here is how the tool decides what to erase and what to draw in its place.
A blue circle now sits above your chats, ready to answer questions you never asked it. WhatsApp lets you hide that button and clear what the assistant has stored, without touching your normal messages. Here is what each switch actually changes.
A 60-message email thread lands in your inbox and you need the decisions, deadlines, and open questions before your next meeting. Gemini's side panel in Gmail and Google Docs reads the whole conversation and hands you a short summary, a task list, and a draft reply in the tone you pick. Here is how the feature works, what it does well, and where you still need to check its work.
ChatGPT can carry notes about your preferences, your job, and small details from past conversations into new chats. Here is how that memory works, what it stores, and how to read, edit, or delete any note you no longer want.
Two leading AI assistants now compete for your daily tasks: Claude Sonnet and GPT-6 Sol. One excels at nuanced long-form writing, deep document analysis, and interactive artifacts, while the other brings real-time voice and web lookup to everyday work.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Google's Gemini 4 Argon are the two heaviest AI models released in September 2026. One shines at acting on your computer by itself; the other holds an enormous working memory for long documents and video. Here is how to tell which one matches the task in front of you.
A panicked call in your child's voice asking for money is one of the fastest-growing AI scams. A simple family password, agreed on in a calm moment, can end the call in seconds.
A project manager interview can turn into a grilling about dependencies, risk, and why a deadline slipped. You can rehearse those exact questions with a free AI assistant before the real conversation. Here is how to set it up, what a weak answer looks like, and how to push the AI into being a tough but fair interviewer.