Author: Lenka Vojtechova

Update, August 3, 2026: Suno lost a landmark copyright case in Germany. On July 31, 2026 the Munich Regional Court ruled for GEMA, finding that Suno both trained on protected works without a license and reproduced them in its outputs. The rankings below are unchanged, but the commercial-rights guidance now carries a European caveat, and […]

You can plan a vacation with AI in six steps: shortlist a destination, lock a daily budget, generate a day-by-day itinerary, pull live flight and hotel prices, build a packing and documents checklist, then verify every detail before you book. The catch is that no single AI does all six well. In independent April 2026 […]

Stanford researchers found that AI detectors falsely flagged 61.3% of non-native English essays as machine-written. OpenAI shut down its own AI text detector in July 2023 because it correctly identified just 26% of AI-generated text. A 2024 study by Perkins and colleagues put the baseline accuracy of six major detectors at 39.5%. Yet vendors still […]

Anthropic does not offer a public, individually-redeemable student discount on Claude Pro in 2026. There is no .edu signup form, no promo code at checkout, and no “Education” tab inside claude.ai. Verified students get Claude cheaper through four legitimate routes: Claude for Education (free Pro at partner universities), the Claude Campus Program (Ambassadors and Builder […]

Dario Amodei is (1) the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude. (2) a former Vice President of Research at OpenAI who led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3. (3) a Princeton-trained biophysicist with a PhD in neural-circuit electrophysiology. (4) a $7 billion billionaire as of February 2026 per Forbes. (5) the […]

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. For a chatbot built specifically around lighter, […]

Only two flagship AI Pro tiers currently offer a public free trial in July 2026: Google AI Pro (30 days, card required, renews at $19.99/month) and Microsoft Copilot Pro (1 month, card required, renews at $20/month). Cursor quietly removed its Pro trial earlier in 2026, ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro have never offered a public […]

NotebookLM, now called Gemini Notebook, is Google’s free AI research tool, and you use it in six steps. Sign in, create a notebook, and upload up to 50 sources. Then ask questions, check the inline citations, and open the Studio panel to generate study guides, an audio podcast, or a narrated video. Unlike a normal […]

Update, July 2026: Refreshed for the resolved valuation race and the new flagship models. Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation on May 28, 2026, overtaking OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup, and both labs have since shipped new flagships. Anthropic’s current top model is Claude Opus 5, […]

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a typical chatbot reply. The scary viral ~500 mL “per email” number comes from also counting the electricity supply chain, which is why estimates span more […]