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AI at Home: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Everyday Life

AI at home is becoming ambient infrastructure: cameras that describe events, assistants that act across services, phones that run models locally and automations that control physical devices. Here is how to judge what is useful, what leaves your home and what should remain manual.