As much as other search engines try, Google simply dominates search. Search is the company's bread and butter (and it spends billions to keep it that

[Update May 13, 2024, 2:30 p.m.: Turns out it wasn't a search engine at all, but a more natural chatbot and a new free tier for all ChatGPT users. Get

For a week or so, it seemed like OpenAI was ready to take on Google and announce a ChatGPT-powered search engine. In this case, though, the rumor mill

During the kickoff keynote for Google I/O 2024, the general tone seemed to be, “Can we have an extension?” Google’s promised AI improvements are defin

AI is a fascinating field, one that has seen a ton of advancements in recent years. In fact, OpenAI's ChatGPT has singlehandedly increased the hype ar

As long as you've signed up for the ChatGPT Plus package ($20 a month), you can make use of custom GPTs—Generative Pre-trained Transformers. These are

Google's AI heavy Google I/O keynote has ended, but Gemini has a long way to go before it can turn Google's AI dreams into realities. While many of Go

As part of Google I/O, the company made several AI announcements, including a new experimental tool called VideoFX. With VideoFX, users can have a hig

At I/O 2024, Google made lots of exciting AI announcements—but one that has everyone talking is Project Astra. Essentially, Project Astra is what Goog

AI chatbots are more popular than ever, and there are plenty of solid options out there to choose from beyond OpenAI's ChatGPT. One particularly stron

AI has been the dominating force in this year's Google I/O—and one of the biggest announcements that Google made was a new Gemini model customized for

At I/O 2024, Google announced a great new AI feature for Google Photos, simply called Ask Photos. With Ask Photos, you can treat the app like a chatbo

The big tech story last week was GPT-4o, the newest model from OpenAI. GPT-4o is more than a simple ChatGPT upgrade, however. The headlining feature i

When you become part of a community (or at least lurk in it long enough), you begin to learn that community’s inside jokes. Unless you are an AI, that

The clipboard is a really handy feature that you’ll find in most types of smart tech these days—from tablets to smartphones and even Windows PCs and M

Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC announcements last week, Google is refreshing Chomebooks with new AI features to match. These include the

Transcribing isn't fun at all. Good thing it's something AI is actually good at. Aiko is an app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone that users Whisper—open-sour

At its Google I/O keynote earlier this month, Google made big promises about AI in Search, saying that users would soon be able to “Let Google do the

OpenAI continues to expand the options available to free ChatGPT users. The company started by making its newest model, GPT-4o, generally free to all

Generative AI applications like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot are known as chatbots, since you're meant to talk to them. So, I guess it's only natural

Thus far, AI devices like the Rabbit R1 and the Humane Ai pin have been all hype, no substance. The gadgets largely failed on their promises as true A

Google is finally explaining what the heck happened with its AI Overviews.For those who aren’t caught up, AI Overviews were introduced to Google’s sea

Starting on June 26, Meta will reportedly update its privacy policy to allow its AI to be trained on your data. The news began circulating on social m

One of the ways that Microsoft is pushing AI in Windows 11 is through a new feature called Recall. Available on Copilot+ PCs only, the feature essenti

It's difficult to avoid artificial intelligence at the moment—it's currently being touted as the next big revolution in tech—and Google is trying its

Chatting with AI has proven to be a bit of a privacy risk as of late, with Meta admitting that it trains its AI by using your conversations with it (a

Days before Apple’s WWDC event, Microsoft’s own AI laptop initiative just got some bad news. While the first Copilot+ devices are set to launch on Jun

Follow Lifehacker's ongoing coverage of WWDC 2024.Apple is finally ready for its AI moment, after years of speculation and four generations of devices

Microsoft has largely billed its AI chatbot, Copilot, as a free-to-use AI experience. You can download the app, call up the chatbot in Windows 11, or

Microsoft bills its AI chatbot, Copilot, as your "everyday AI companion." But while Microsoft has baked in the usual generative AI features you'd expe

Despite explaining away issues with its AI Overviews while promising to make them better, Google is still apparently telling people to put glue in the

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk throu

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk throu

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk throu

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk throu

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk throu

It’s only been a few months since Anthropic debuted Claude 3, but the company is ready to take the next step—at least for one of its models. Enter Cla

Google introduced AI Overviews in search results shortly after Google I/O in May, but it wasn’t first to the AI search game. It had already given Gemi

If you or your company pay for Workspace, you may have noticed Google's AI integration with apps like Docs, Sheets, and Drive. The company has been pu

When OpenAI first rolled out the ChatGPT app for Mac, it was exclusive to ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Unless you paid $20 per month, you needed to stick

Google Translate can come in handy when you're traveling or communicating with someone who speaks another language, and thanks to a new update, you ca

Copilot has changed quite a bit since the start of this year. Not only does the bot have an official app, but now anyone with a Microsoft 365 account

Meta is changing how it’s labeling AI images on Facebook and Instagram after photographers were caught in the crossfire between the brand and its incr

Google is set to unveil its Pixel 9 lineup of smartphones in August, a full month earlier than usual. Along with new hardware, which, of course, has a

A YouTube tool uses AI to make custom radio stations for you, an eagle-eyed Reddit user noted over the holiday weekend. While the company hasn’t made

Like Facebook and Instagram, Etsy is currently dealing with an influx of AI-generated sludge. But unlike those platforms, Etsy makes its money putting

It's no secret that AI is getting pretty darn realistic: Companies like OpenAI are making tools that can replicate images, audio, and videos in ways t

Update (July 15, 2024): A Lattice spokesperson reached out to me, sharing the news that the company will not be following through on its plans to onbo

So far, the EU’s increasing regulations on big tech have threatened Apple, Meta, and Microsoft with fines in the billions, plus forced Apple to allow

This week, OpenAI debuted a more lightweight version of its most advanced large language model (LLM), GPT-4o. Called GPT-4o mini, it will replace GPT-

After Meta said it would keep its next multimodal AI out of Europe, the company is now releasing Llama 3.1, an open-source AI model with performance r

Meta is skipping ahead of Apple at implementing AI in VR. While Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman previously reported that Apple Vision Pro will get Apple Intel

When Google’s AI Overviews told people to put glue in their pizza earlier this year, the internet responded with ways to turn AI Overviews off and thr

ChatGPT gained the ability to search the internet late last year, but there’s a difference between an AI chatbot that can use live information and a f

“Reddit” has quickly become one of my favorite search engine keywords. When I want to know what actual people have to say about restaurants near me or

It’s easy to forget that X has its own AI chatbot. It's called Grok, and it’s available to all X Premium subscribers, but that doesn’t mean free X use

As iOS 18 moves into public beta, its headlining feature—Apple Intelligence—is getting delayed. While Apple has only ever said to expect it sometime i

Last year, Meta announced a series of AI updates coming to Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. These new options included things like AI stickers, AI

Yesterday, X user Avi Schiffman announced a new AI-powered device called simply "Friend." His post about it quickly went viral—probably not because pe

This week, OpenAI announced it has started rolling out advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT Plus users. While not all Plus subscribers will see the feature

Apple Intelligence won't officially ship until the iOS 18.1 update later this year, but Apple's already asking for users to help train it, and it look

With AI working its way into seemingly every new mobile app, it’s easy to forget that it’s also getting baked into the apps we’ve all been using for y

After Reddit results started disappearing from search engines not named Google last week, the company has finally come forward to explain why, essenti

AI is being integrated and rolled out everywhere you look in tech right now, and Google is leading the charge. The company is adding its AI model, Gem

Apple Intelligence might be smart, but it has plenty to learn—including the fact that phishing emails aren't what they claim to be. (You actually have

ChatGPT parent company OpenAI has apparently been sitting on a way to watermark AI text for over a year, according to the Wall Street Journal. Such te

Apple Intelligence is only in the initial stages of testing, but we're already learning more about how it works. As it turns out, Apple seems to be ve

AI is everywhere. Here’s how to spot it. This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Exposing AI” series. We're exploring six different types of AI-generated m

AI is everywhere. Here’s how to spot it. This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Exposing AI” series. We’re exploring six different types of AI-generated m

AI is everywhere. Here’s how to spot it. This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Exposing AI” series. We’re exploring six different types of AI-generated m

AI is everywhere. Here’s how to spot it. This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Exposing AI” series. We’re exploring six different types of AI-generated m

AI is everywhere. Here’s how to spot it. This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Exposing AI” series. We’re exploring six different types of AI-generated m

If you love vacation but hate planning, creating an itinerary and booking hotels, meals, and activities can put a damper on your trip before it even s

At Made by Google 2024, Google unveiled some big new AI features. For example, if you buy a Pixel 9 or Pixel 9 Pro Fold, you can try Add Me, a feature

It’s election season in the United States, which of course means it’s a perfect time for Elon Musk to release a deepfaker’s dream app. As part of the

Google's latest AI image generation model, Imagen 3, is now publicly available in the United States, and all you need to try it out is a free Google a

Google is continuing its push to help you draft and rewrite your emails with AI—whether or not that's actually useful. These features, powered by Gemi

Google has made a lot of pitches about the future of AI. It wants AI to be the new face of search, (though that rollout's going quite poorly), and it

Artificial intelligence, and generative AI in particular, are now such prominent technologies, they'll often get mentioned before anything else at pro

Back in June, Google announced Gemini's arrival to the side panel in Google Docs and Gmail for Workspace users. Among other things, the new feature le

AI-generated videos aren't just the future: They're here, and they're scary. AI companies are rolling out tech that can produce realistic videos from

o1, OpenAI's latest generative AI model, has arrived. The company announced o1-preview and o1-mini on Thursday, marking a departure from the GPT namin

As companies continue to push AI as anything from a web designer to the equivalent of a whole film studio, one of its more tried-and-true use cases ha

People have predicted and feared the possibility of an AI takeover for decades—long before ChatGPT was a household name. But even as certain tech comp

Generative AI models aren't born out of a vacuum. In a sense, these systems are built piece by piece using massive amounts of training data, and alway

AI junk has taken over Facebook, and it's coming to YouTube next. And, like a homeowner who doesn’t seem to mind that the stranger at their door lacks

It's no secret that social media sites these days are full of bots. Accounts spread AI-generated images around Facebook like wildfire, while X's disas

Back in May, OpenAI announced the launch of advanced voice mode for ChatGPT. The company pitched the new function as the then-extant Voice Mode on ste

When it comes to Google's AI tools, you might think first about the Gemini assistant app, or maybe some of the cool tricks you can do in Google Photos

After an underwhelming launch in June, Microsoft is retooling Copilot and Copilot+ to make it match up to its competitors a bit more. It's a mixed bag

Good news, fans of Android and AI assistants: The latest Gemini Live upgrade is now available to everyone with an Android phone set to use English, wi

Since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, people have been using it and other generative AI tools for both writing and coding, to varying degrees of succes

Artificial intelligence features are increasingly commonplace, some more useful than others. Certainly among the more mundane ways the tech is being i

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are transforming many areas of our digital lives, from smartphone apps to web searches, and they're pushing their

Back when it was known as Twitter, the social media app had plenty of its own problems, but I'd wager the share of users who think X is a flourishing,

Since earlier this year, Google has been rolling out Workspace extensions for Gemini, allowing it to scan your emails (via Gmail) and documents (via G

If you've always wanted to offload some of your tedious computing busywork to artificial intelligence, that future is now a little closer: The updated

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? Like the Metaverse and NFTs before it, it feels near impossible to follow tech news right now without hearing

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? It's been nearly two years since ChatGPT changed the public's perception of AI, and yet the idea of using gen

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? Technology seems to be advancing at lightning speed, but somehow, we're all still often communicating like it

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? Almost two years into the "AI revolution," you’re probably sick of hearing about all the ways artificial inte

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? As companies invest more and more resources into developing artificial intelligence tools, the tech is becomi

AI is changing our lives. Are you ready? Microsoft's AI chatbot, Copilot, has been steadily growing and adding new features since its introduction las

It's no surprise to those of us following generative artificial intelligence news that AI is imperfect. In fact, generative AI so often spits out untr

Writing essays can be draining, tedious, and difficult, even for me—and I write all day long for a living. If writing isn’t your special skill, it’s e

Google Maps is one of those apps that basically does everything I want it to: I punch in my destination, I'm guided to that destination, then I turn t

Update 10/31/2024: It's now nearing the end of October, and Windows Insider testers still have yet to get access to Recall, Microsoft's controversial

OpenAI has been pushing out new features for ChatGPT at a steady clip, and one of the latest updates to arrive is a small but useful one: the ability

For decades, whenever you've needed to know something, you've googled it. What time's the Super Bowl? How do you fix a leaky faucet? What's the differ

Earlier this year, I tried out OpenAI's free ChatGPT app for Mac. And, to be honest, it was pretty good: Exclusive features, like the dedicated launch

Smart devices, on their own, are nifty, but one-note. You can turn things on or off, adjust volume or brightness, or tell your vacuum where to go. But

The new Google Pixel 9 phones didn't just bring hardware upgrades with them: They also brought a selection of useful AI-powered apps as well, includin

Following concerns that erupted on social media and its own support forums over the past few weeks, Microsoft wants to set the record straight: the co