Artificial intelligence

Recruit AI to help you haggle down your internet bill

Loyal customers pay the most. Here’s the AI script trick that turns a 10-minute call into hundreds a year, free.

🏠 How to search rentals and book apartment tours with AI

Zillow is a connected app on both Gemini and ChatGPT, so you can find listings and schedule tours just by asking. Here’s the 60-second setup, the prompt to try first and the privacy catch.

Your phone is a free appraiser. Point it at the attic before you donate a fortune.

A vintage Pyrex dish, the kind sitting in a million cabinets, sold for nearly $6,000. Before you donate that box, photograph the item, let AI identify and price it, then confirm on eBay’s sold listings. Free appraiser, already in your pocket.

This free tool turns your kid’s pencil drawing into a 10-page storybook that reads itself aloud

Google’s free Storybook tool takes one photo of your kid’s pencil drawing and turns it into a 10-page illustrated book, drawn in their own style, that reads itself aloud. Two minutes, no design skills, print it as a PDF keepsake.

Free AI strips the dog, the traffic and the coffee grinder out of your calls in real time

Krisp strips barking dogs, traffic and coffee shop noise out of your calls in real time, using AI that runs entirely on your device. Works with Zoom, Teams, Meet and Slack. Free tier covers about an hour of noise-free calls a day.

Five tricks power users type into AI that you don’t. Steal all five.

Same chatbot, same monthly bill, wildly different answers. The gap isn’t intelligence. It’s vocabulary. Here are the five commands that turn a chatbot into a consultant, an editor, a burglar and a tutor.

Scientists built an AI that can nearly talk to dolphins. Your dog could be next.

Google trained an AI on 40 years of dolphin chatter, and it runs on a cell phone underwater. The wild part? The same tech is coming for your pets.

Turn any photo into a free coloring page in 20 seconds

The kids are bored, the crayons are out, but every coloring book is scribbled in. Here’s the quick AI trick that turns your own photos into custom pages nobody else on Earth has.

Free vs. paid AI: What your $20 a month actually buys (and when to skip it)

Nearly every AI charges the same $20 a month, but the free versions are better than you think. Here’s when paying is worth it and when it’s cash walking out the door.

You’re making AI images all wrong. Here’s how to fix that.

Flawless skin, dramatic lighting, tidy rooms? That’s the “AI look,” and it’s tanking your content. Learn the simple tricks that make your visuals pass as real.

AI, price my junk

One shelf, one photo session and one smart prompt can tell you what to sell, bundle, donate or toss.

AI can spot if your pet is in pain from one photo. Here’s how to try it tonight.

Cats and dogs are experts at hiding pain, and even loving owners miss it. Now the AI on your phone can read the tiny signs right off their face. Here’s the free way to try it, plus when to skip the app and call the vet.

🤖 Say hello to my little lens

Honor’s new Robot Phone has a camera that physically extends on a robotic arm with three-axis stabilization and AI tracking, so it can follow you around like a tiny cameraman. No tripod, no camera operator, no friend silently resenting you for the 40th take.

The free AI that brings your old family photos back to life

That shoebox of cracked, faded photos in your closet? Google’s free Gemini app can restore them, add color and sharpen the faces in seconds. One paste of a prompt does it.

The 5-minute AI check that catches dangerous drug combos hiding in your cabinet

Most of us take pills from doctors who never compare notes, plus the supplements and cold meds nobody wrote down. Here’s the AI prompt that reads every label, flags the dangerous interactions and tells you what to ask your pharmacist.

How to make AI your advocate and find clinical trials when treatment stalls

A caller one year into her cancer fight asked how AI could speak up for her and hunt down trials. Here are the exact prompts, the right databases and the one rule that keeps you safe.

The government wants AI doctors. One study shows why you should slow down.

Washington is fast-tracking AI chatbots that can diagnose and prescribe. But when 1,300 people asked for a diagnosis, the chatbots got it right just 34.5% of the time, and one missing detail turned a brain bleed emergency into “lie down in a dark room.” Here’s how to use AI for your health the smart way.

Practice the no

Asking for a raise, pushing back on a landlord fee or dealing with a coworker who treats meetings like dinner theater? Use these copy-paste AI prompts to rehearse the resistance, sharpen your ask and walk in with actual lines for objections, interruptions, bad timing and no.

Your insurer’s AI denied your claim in 1.2 seconds. Here’s how to fight back.

Insurance AI denies claims in seconds, how to fight back with your own AI, 180-day appeal window, EOB explainer, Device Advice tip, Gmail trick.

Your Zoom, Teams and Google Meet calls are being transcribed by AI

Every major video platform has AI built in to record, transcribe and summarize your meetings. Here’s what to check and what actually matters.