Author: Lenka Vojtechova

Cognitive science ranks two study techniques above almost every other, retrieval practice and spaced repetition, and both reward you for going over the same material more than once. An AI podcast for studying makes those repeats painless, because it turns your lecture notes, slides, or a textbook chapter into a two-host audio episode you can […]

As of August 2026, DeepSeek R2 still has not launched, and DeepSeek has never confirmed a release date. The company that shook the AI world with R1 in early 2025 spent 2026 shipping something else entirely, the DeepSeek V4 series, and on 31 July 2026 it shipped the official DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 build with what its own […]

GLM 5.5 is reportedly expected in August 2026, according to a June 30 report from CGTN on Zhipu AI. That would make it the direct successor to GLM-5.2, the open-weight model that shipped on June 13 and immediately became the highest-scoring open-source model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 51. Zhipu […]

You can now make an AI podcast in under an hour, and the fastest path takes about a minute. You add a source or a topic, pick a length and style, and the tool writes a two-host script, voices it with synthetic hosts, and hands you an MP3 you can play like any other show. […]

Yes, Claude AI is free. You can sign up at claude.ai with no credit card and start chatting straight away, and as of July 1, 2026 the free plan runs Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic’s newest default model. The free tier gives you roughly 15 to 40 messages every 5 hours, plus web search, file uploads, […]

The Canva AI photo editor is not one button, it is a stack of seven AI tools built into Canva’s editor that change photos you already have. You can add or swap objects with a prompt, erase distractions with a brush, stretch a photo past its original frame, lift the subject off its background, and […]

An AI podcast is an audio episode that software writes and voices for you, instead of people recording into a microphone. You hand a tool a source, such as a block of text, a PDF, your notes, or just a topic, and it produces a finished show, usually a two-host conversation you can play like […]

GLM pricing is the headline reason developers keep switching to Zhipu AI’s models. The flagship GLM-5.2 costs just $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output on the official API, roughly one-sixth of what GPT-5.5 charges, and the older GLM-4.7 is cheaper still. You can also use GLM free in the browser, and […]

Text to podcast AI turns a block of writing, a set of notes, or a PDF into a two-host audio episode in about a minute, with no microphone and no recording session. You paste or upload your content, pick a length and style, and the tool writes a script, voices it with synthetic hosts, and […]

Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a native 1-million-token context window, released on June 30, 2026 under a permissive MIT license. It is the model that quietly topped global developer charts on OpenRouter for two months under the codename “Owl Alpha”, and Meituan says it is the first trillion-parameter model trained […]