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Issue of September 9, 2026

Topic

technology

2 pieces, newest first.

Operations

What an AI Assistant Actually Does in a Household

Fourteen households let us look at what they had genuinely used a chatbot for over three months. It was not the things the advertisements show. It was forms, scripts, translation, and one job nobody predicted.

Helen Moriarty3 min

Dependents

The AI Homework Conversation, and How to Have It

Your teenager is using it. So is their teacher. The households that have settled this did not write a ban — they wrote three lines about when it is a calculator and when it is a ghostwriter.

Priya Raman4 min