Practical articles to help you master AI tools and technology
Google updated its spam policy on May 16 to ban AI poisoning, the practice of manipulating AI model outputs through adversarial prompts. Sites caught doing it face 180-day removal from AI Overviews.
Malta's government struck a world-first deal with OpenAI to provide free ChatGPT Plus to all 570,000 citizens. The catch: everyone must complete an AI literacy course first.
Greg Brockman takes over product strategy as OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex into a unified agent platform. The company also quietly acquired voice-cloning startup Weights.gg and shut down Sora.
You don't need to be a programmer to build things with AI. Here's exactly how to go from zero to shipping a working project in 2026, using tools that write the code for you.
AI video went from 'interesting demo' to 'production tool' in twelve months. After testing every major platform, here's what each one does well, what they still can't do, and who should pay for which one.
Copilot evolved from autocomplete to a full development platform. After using it daily across three production projects, here's what it actually does well, what it still gets wrong, and how to integrate it into a real workflow.
Gemini 2.5 Pro changed the game with a 1M-token context window and Deep Research. After three months of daily use alongside ChatGPT and Claude, here's where Gemini wins, where it falls short, and how to use it for work that actually matters.
Perplexity went from niche research tool to Google alternative in 18 months. Here's how it actually works, what it does better than Google, and the specific workflows where it saves hours every week.
The BLS finally separated AI-related job displacement from general tech layoffs. The data: 47,000 jobs displaced by AI in Q1 2026, but 89,000 new AI-adjacent roles created. The shift is real. It's also weirdly specific.
Google just showed Remy at I/O, an always-on AI agent that controls your apps, manages your inbox, and takes actions while you sleep. It's either the most useful AI product yet or the most invasive.
Meta released Llama 4 under Apache 2.0 license with no commercial restrictions. At 405B parameters, it matches GPT-5.5 on most benchmarks. The proprietary AI model business just got a lot harder to justify.
Claude Managed Agents now review past sessions, identify patterns, and refine their own performance over time. Early users report dramatically higher task completion rates without any prompt engineering.
China's new AI agent guidelines create a three-tier risk system across 19 industries. Agents in healthcare, finance, and transportation face the strictest controls, and can't act beyond what users explicitly authorize.
The UK's AI Safety Institute confirms Claude Mythos completed a 32-step cyber attack from reconnaissance to full domain takeover. Frontier AI offense capability is now doubling every four months.
The European Court of Justice confirmed that platforms using news content to train or inform AI systems must pay publishers 'fair compensation.' The ruling reshapes the economics of AI training data across the EU.
Timothy Gowers, one of the world's top mathematicians, reports that OpenAI's latest model produced original research-grade mathematics in about 60 minutes. The math community is taking it seriously, with caveats.
A real breakdown of which tasks AI actually handles well for productivity, which ones it makes worse, and how to set up a weekly AI workflow that saves time without the hype.
DeepSeek's next model reportedly lands in June with MCP support and enterprise tooling, signaling a shift from research benchmarks to paid business use.
GitLab's 'Act 2' restructuring means fewer countries, flatter management, and a bet that AI agents will write most code by 2028. The stock dropped 8.2%.
Microsoft's CEO testified that Musk never contacted him about concerns over OpenAI's direction. The testimony undercuts Musk's central claim in the case.
The Microsoft-OpenAI deal just got rewired. A $380B revenue-sharing cap replaces what could have been a $1.35 trillion obligation, freeing OpenAI for a 2027 IPO.
AI agents are the next evolution beyond chatbots, systems that don't just answer questions, but plan, use tools, and take action. Here's what you need to know.
AI companies are burning cash at an unprecedented rate. The technology is real, but the economics don't add up. Here's the honest math behind the AI boom.
Claude Code has become the preferred coding tool for 75% of developers who've tried it. Here's what it does, how its agent system works, and how to set it up for maximum productivity.
Cursor has evolved from an AI-enhanced editor into an agent orchestration platform. Here's a hands-on guide to what it actually does, how its agents work, and whether it's worth $20/month.
I spent weeks researching which jobs are actually safe from AI. Not the clickbait lists. Real jobs, with real reasoning, based on talking to people who do them.
AI makes learning both more important and much harder. The real point of learning isn't to reproduce what AI can do. It's to know when AI is wrong.
LLM, RAG, fine-tuning, tokens, temperature, AI jargon is out of control. Here's what each term actually means, explained the way you'd explain it to a friend over coffee.
AI hallucination isn't a rare bug, it's built into how language models work. Here's how to catch it before you embarrass yourself by repeating fake facts.
You don't need a prompt engineering course. You just need to understand three things: context, specificity, and iteration. Here's how to get useful results from AI on your first day.
The Pentagon's CDAO gave Scale AI a $500M contract, 5x the previous deal. Meanwhile, Anthropic was excluded after rejecting military terms. The military AI vendor market is splitting.
Anthropic's revenue exploded from $9B to $30B in months as it secured a $40B Google investment and leased SpaceX compute. The AI infrastructure buildout has no precedent.
Cerebras Systems, maker of dinner-plate-sized AI chips, will go public May 14 with massive investor demand. The IPO signals that AI hardware is the next big bet after AI software.
I've been using ChatGPT daily since late 2022. Here's what I wish someone had told me on day one, from prompts that work to settings most people miss.
For the first time, criminals used a large language model to discover and exploit an unknown security vulnerability. Google's threat intelligence team says the era of AI-driven cyber attacks is here.
The AI industry is going through growing pains. Elon Musk escalated his legal war with Sam Altman, Meta cut 10% of its workforce, and China blocked Meta's Manus acquisition.
The AI industry has shifted from chatbots to autonomous agents that take actions, not just answer questions. Three-quarters of Fortune 500 companies have deployed at least one. Here's what that actually looks like on the ground.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini each do something best. After using all three for months, here's my actual routine: what I use when, why, and what still sucks about each one.
For the first time, Apple will allow third-party AI models as the default assistant on iPhones. Users will be able to choose Gemini or Claude instead of Siri.
Four Chinese labs released near-frontier open-weights coding models in under two weeks, at a fraction of the cost of Western alternatives. The AI race just became genuinely multipolar.
You don't need a CS degree to understand what AI actually is, how it works, or what it means for your life. Plain English, honest trade-offs, no corporate buzzwords.
I have zero art background and have generated thousands of Midjourney images. Here's what I've learned about writing prompts that produce consistently good results.