Early in 2026, a rather ordinary utility app bearing an attention-grabbing moniker reached the top ranks of sold applications in the iPhone App Store of China: Are You Dead? or, in Chinese, Sǐ le ma. The app only briefly turned out to be China's top-selling application, having easily elbowed aside the popular commercial productivity application lineup and video games. Its meteoric rise was not cheered by vigorous marketing or celebrity endorsement, but by pure word of mouth and social media talk. The app was downloaded by many simply out of curiosity through the existence of such a provocative name, only to discover that behind that even more provocative name was a very simple idea targeted toward the increasingly social reality in China.

The caricature trend introduced millions of users to AI-generated visuals, but it also opened the door to something bigger: creative image prompting as a form of everyday digital expression. The initial development of exaggerated cartoon portraits transformed into a new cultural practice which allowed users to treat ChatGPT as their visual partner instead of a basic tool. The prompts demonstrate how generative AI has developed into an innovative creative language which people can use through its accessible features and playful elements and customizable options.

The nine viral ChatGPT image prompts presented below extend beyond caricatures to create distinct artistic paths which actual users have transformed into popular shareable content for social media networks.

This has been made possible by modern vehicles that utilize warning lights to break down complicated mechanical systems to simple visual interpretations by the driver. The most misinterpreted of them are the “Maintenance Required” and “Check Engine”. They are confused by many drivers as similar alerts with the meaning that something is wrong, however, they are diverse in purpose, functioning, urgency, and risk. Knowledge of the difference is not only the technical knowledge, but it has a direct influence on the engine life, costs of repair, and safety on the road.

Car wraps have changed how car owners make their rides feel and look new. They give a bright choice over usual paint jobs, letting you change your car’s look with colors, styles, and designs hard or costly to get in other ways. Yet, many who like car wraps, both new and old, ask: How long does a car wrap last, and what is the best way to keep it up? The answer can shift, based on a few things, but with good know-how and care, your car wrap can keep its great look for years.

When ChatGPT, from OpenAI, launched in November 2022, it was fully unopposed in the conversational AI space. That has changed today. Recent user studies put ChatGPT into fourth place on the LMArena leaderboard, as specialized competitors outshine the pioneer in an array of specific tasks the latter can no longer lay claim to. A wide-ranging study by Prolific's Humaine research platform tested thousands of anonymous user interactions and found seven AI chatbots consistently outperforming ChatGPT on many measures of performance and across demographics.

With the launch of iOS 26, Apple is making its native generative models—the backbone of Apple Intelligence—available to third-party apps through the new Foundation Models framework. What this means is that your AI capability on your iPhone no longer lies in Siri and system features alone—it can also lie in the apps you interact with every day, but keep private and execute without uploading your data to distant servers. Following are five real, modern-day iPhone apps that now use Apple Intelligence to make your daily life smarter, more personal, and more productive.