AI Assistants and Agents

Once you’re comfortable chatting with AI, the next step is making it work for you. Here we cover custom assistants like Gemini Gems, projects that remember your preferences, and the newer AI agents that can take on tasks while you do something else. We write from our own use where we can, and we tell you plainly when we haven’t tried a tool yet.

ChatGPT Answers Now Come With Charts, Calculators, and Diagrams: What GPT-6's Intelligent UI Changes

On October 7, 2026, OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 and a feature it calls Intelligent UI in the Chat tab of ChatGPT. According to OpenAI's release notes, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users got it that day, and Free and Go users followed starting October 8. Enterprise access depends on what a workspace admin has switched on. The short version: ChatGPT now decides whether your answer should be plain text, a visual layout, or a small interactive tool. You don't flip a swi

AI Assistants and Agents

Oct 144 min read

I Stopped Waiting Until I Got Home to Keep Working: What Claude Cowork on Mobile Actually Changed

Anthropic rolled its Claude Cowork tool out to mobile and web in July 2026, which means a task you hand to your AI assistant at your desk no longer has to sit there waiting for you to get back to it. After weeks of actually using that, here's what it's worth in practice. The Problem I Actually Had I use Claude for a lot of my work at try-ai.net, everything from building tools to drafting content to digging through research. The issue was never Claude itself. It was me. I'd ha

AI Assistants and Agents

Sep 144 min read