Author: Lenka Vojtechova

ByteDance’s new Seed 2.1 Pro scored 1539 on Code Arena: Frontend, landing at #8 in the world and drawing level with Claude Opus 4.6. That is a remarkable result for a model that is not even publicly available yet, and it puts ByteDance into the same frontend tier as Anthropic and Z.ai for the first […]

Siri stops working for one of three reasons more than any other, an incomplete setting, a weak internet connection, or a temporary software glitch that a restart clears. Apple’s own support data points to those same culprits, and most people get their assistant talking again in under two minutes once they know which one to […]

The fastest way to learn Google Gemini in 2026 is free, because the Gemini app gives you Gemini 3.5 Flash at no cost, the default model since May 19, 2026, plus a daily allowance of the stronger Gemini 3.1 Pro, Nano Banana 2 image generation, five Deep Research reports a month, and the Gemini Live […]

The best open source AI models now score within single digits of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on most benchmarks, and you can download their weights for free. GLM 5.2 posts a 62.1 on SWE-bench Pro, DeepSeek V4 hits 80.6 on SWE-Bench Verified, and Gemma 4 runs on a laptop while scoring 85.2% on MMLU-Pro. […]

The best free AI video generators in 2026 are Seedance 2.0 for watermark-free 1080p clips, Hailuo for the most generous daily free allowance, and Kling AI 3.0 for the most realistic short clips. All three let you start with just an email, no credit card, and all three run on daily-refreshing credits so you can […]

Apple Intelligence only runs on a Mac with an M1 chip or newer and macOS 15.1 or later, which locks out every Intel Mac and a lot of older machines still in daily use. The strongest Apple Intelligence alternatives for Mac, including FelloAI, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Raycast AI, DeepSeek and Dottie, give you more […]

More than 10,000 people search every month for how to use Siri shortcuts, and in 2026 the answer changed in a big way. Siri shortcuts let you bundle several actions into a single command you trigger by voice, a tap, or an automatic rule, and the free Shortcuts app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac is […]

Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, and the man whose lab built Gemini, the AI model now woven through Google Search, Android, and soon a Gemini-powered Siri. Born in London in 1976, he was a chess master at 13 and a video-game designer in his […]

NotebookLM is Google’s free, source-grounded AI research tool that reads the documents, PDFs, websites, and YouTube videos you upload, then answers your questions, writes summaries, and turns your material into podcasts, videos, mind maps, and study guides. The key difference from ChatGPT or Gemini is that it only uses the sources you give it, and […]

You can learn ChatGPT for free in a single afternoon, and the most useful training comes straight from the company that built it. OpenAI Academy offers free, self-paced courses for non-technical beginners, and the ChatGPT free tier gives you a capable model at no cost, currently GPT-5.5 Instant by default. You do not need to […]