{"id":17239,"date":"2025-01-13T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T07:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/stay-on-top-of-tech-five-ways-to-take-back-control-from-emails-to-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T07:38:05","slug":"stay-on-top-of-tech-five-ways-to-take-back-control-from-emails-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/stay-on-top-of-tech-five-ways-to-take-back-control-from-emails-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay on top of tech: five ways to take back control, from emails to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is tech calling the shots in your life? From making AI work smarter to tracking stolen phones, our expert explains how to get ahead<\/p>\n<p>Asking ChatGPT to write your emails is so two years ago. Generative AI tools are now going beyond the basic text-prompt phase. Take Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/notebooklm.google\/\">NotebookLM<\/a>, an experimental \u201cAI research assistant\u201d that lets you upload not just text but also videos, links and PDFs. It will provide a summary of the content, answer questions about it, and even make a podcast-like \u201cAI overview\u201d if you want it to \u2013 all while organising your original sources and notes. As AI tools advance, expect more features like this to be baked into everyday software. All the usual caveats of using AI apply: the responsibility for factchecking lies with you.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/13\/stay-on-top-of-tech-five-ways-to-take-back-control-from-emails-to-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/722a817e8b7edb8173a8da204f09b58914a4798f\/0_0_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bd82e956e372019b750979e5dd551785\" title=\"Stay on top of tech: five ways to take back control, from emails to AI\" \/>Is tech calling the shots in your life? From making AI work smarter to tracking stolen phones, our expert explains how to get ahead<br \/>\nAsking ChatGPT to write your emails is so two years ago. Generative AI tools are now going beyond the basic text-prompt phase. Take Google\u2019s NotebookLM, an experimental \u201cAI research assistant\u201d that lets you upload not just text but also videos, links and PDFs. It will provide a summary of the content, answer questions about it, and even make a podcast-like \u201cAI overview\u201d if you want it to \u2013 all while organising your original sources and notes. As AI tools advance, expect more features like this to be baked into everyday software. All the usual caveats of using AI apply: the responsibility for factchecking lies with you. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is tech calling the shots in your life? From making AI work smarter to tracking stolen phones, our expert explains how to get ahead Asking ChatGPT to write your emails is so two years ago. Generative AI tools are now going beyond the basic text-prompt phase. Take Google\u2019s NotebookLM, an experimental \u201cAI research assistant\u201d that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/stay-on-top-of-tech-five-ways-to-take-back-control-from-emails-to-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stay on top of tech: five ways to take back control, from emails to AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}