投稿者: Lenka Vojtechova

You do not have to pay $20/month for Perplexity Pro. Verified students and teachers pay just $10/month for the Education Pro plan (a flat 50% discount), any verified student gets one free month that stacks all the way to 24 free months through referrals, and every US government worker with a .gov email gets a full free year. Those are the three routes that actually work right now, and none of them involve a sketchy promo-code generator. This guide breaks down every confirmed way to get Perplexity Pro for free or cheap, exactly what each route costs, and who qualifies for it. It also tells you which famous “free year” […]

ChatGPT for Teachers is free for verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2027. The plan gives you unlimited messages with GPT-5.1 Auto, a secure education-grade workspace, and FERPA-aligned privacy where your data is not used to train OpenAI’s models by default. Eligibility covers teachers, school staff, and district administrators at accredited U.S. K-12 schools, verified through SheerID at chatgpt.com/k12-verification. It is not a discounted paid tier; it is a dedicated product that sits between the personal free app and OpenAI’s enterprise plans. This guide covers exactly who qualifies, how to get verified in a few minutes, what you get compared to the standard free plan, and what teachers outside the […]

Paying for ChatGPT Plus at $20/month, Claude Pro at $20/month, Google AI Pro at $19.99/month, and Perplexity Pro at $20/month stacks up to nearly $80 every month, or roughly $960 a year, and most of those tools do not offer a single dollar off through any of the “promo codes” you will find on coupon sites. The honest answer is that real AI deals in 2026 are quiet, small, and almost never live on coupon aggregators. This guide covers every legitimate way to lower your AI bill right now: which student discounts are still live, which ones quietly expired this year, which subscriptions are 15% to 17% cheaper if you […]

More than 1,000 people every month type “how to turn off Google Gemini” into search, and the number keeps climbing. Google quietly switched Gemini on by default across Gmail, Chrome, Android, Workspace, Maps and Search through 2025 and early 2026, and most users only noticed when the AI started summarising their inbox or hijacking the power button. A class-action lawsuit (Thele v. Google LLC, filed November 11, 2025) accuses Google of secretly enabling these features around October 10, 2025. Users in the EU, UK and Japan were opted out by default, while US users were opted in. If you live in the US, the off switch is yours to find, […]

Legal-AI company Harvey reported a ~6x increase in agent task-completion rates after switching on a feature Anthropic launched on May 6, 2026 called Claude Dreaming. The same legal-drafting jobs that used to fail repeatedly, because Claude kept forgetting filetype quirks and tool-specific workarounds between sessions, suddenly started finishing reliably. That is the headline number the AI world has been talking about for the past week. It is the first real proof that giving an AI agent the ability to “remember and reflect” between jobs changes what AI can do. Claude Dreaming is one of three new features Anthropic shipped at Code with Claude 2026, alongside Outcomes and Multiagent Orchestration. The […]

The MacBook vs Googlebook vs Chromebook question changed twice in 2026, and both changes went against what this comparison first said. Apple raised the price of every Mac on 25 June 2026 because of the AI memory shortage. The MacBook Air M5 now starts at $1,299 instead of $1,099, and the MacBook Neo costs $699 instead of $599. Google’s Googlebook is still not on sale; its official site says only “Coming fall 2026” and still lists no price. The second change matters more than the money. Apple and Google confirmed that the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be built on Google’s Gemini. The old “Apple AI versus Google […]

Cursor pricing in 2026 starts at $0 for the free Hobby plan and tops out at $200 a month for Ultra. Pro is $20/month, Pro+ is $60/month, Teams seats run $40 (Standard) to $120 (Premium) per user/month, and Enterprise is custom-priced. Annual billing knocks 20% off every paid plan. One thing to know upfront, the student deal that once gave verified .edu users a full year of Pro free is closed to new signups as of June 25, 2026, so the numbers below are what most people will actually pay. Most pricing breakdowns for Cursor read like SaaS finance memos. This one is built for the people who actually use […]

The best free AI for coding in 2026 is three open-weight models you can use without a credit card. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, Kimi K2.6 hits 80.2%, and Qwen 3.6 27B reaches 77.2%, all released between April 20 and April 24, 2026. The paid frontier is still clearly ahead. On the llm-stats SWE-Bench Verified leaderboard, Claude Fable 5 leads at 95.0%, roughly 14 points above the strongest free option. What the free tier buys you is most of the everyday work at none of the cost, in a browser, in your editor, or offline on your own machine. Every model here counts as open source AI, […]

Grok Imagine generated 1.245 billion videos in the 30 days leading up to its 1.0 release in early February 2026. That release bumped the model to 720p, 10-second clips, and dramatically better native audio. With OpenAI’s Sora 2 winding down by September 24, 2026, Grok Imagine now sits next to Google Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 as the dominant video APIs going forward, and it is the cheapest of the three. Curious how Grok’s chatbot stacks up against ChatGPT for everyday tasks? See our full Grok vs ChatGPT comparison. What separates a usable Grok Imagine clip from a wasted credit is almost always the prompt. This guide is the working […]

Grok spicy mode is xAI’s opt-in adult-content tier inside the Grok Imagine image and video generator. Searched just as often as “grok imagine spicy mode” or “grok ai spicy mode,” it is the same feature: a single toggle that opens up an R-rated visual envelope. Since launching on August 4, 2025, it has been the most permissive feature shipped by any major AI lab. It allows partial nudity, suggestive scenes, and what xAI describes as “bolder cinematic tones,” but it is not a porn generator. Elon Musk publicly clarified the standard on March 12, 2026: “If it’s allowed in an R-rated movie, it’s allowed in Grok Imagine.” That single line […]