The best free AI courses in 2026 come from Elements of AI, IBM SkillsBuild, Google Cloud, OpenAI Academy, Anthropic Academy, Harvard’s CS50, MIT OpenCourseWare, and fast.ai. The catch nobody tells you is that “free” usually means free to watch, not a free certificate. Most roundups still list Google AI Essentials as free, but it now sits behind Coursera’s $49/month plan, so the course is only free for a 7-day trial. This guide sorts every major free AI course into three honest tiers. The first tier is fully free with a free certificate, the second is free to learn but charges for the certificate, and the third is free with no […]

ByteDance just announced Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates a full 30-second clip in a single pass with no stitching, breaking a limit that has held most rivals to roughly 10 to 15 seconds. The reveal came at Volcano Engine’s FORCE conference on June 23, 2026, alongside a refreshed Seedance 2.0 that now outputs native 4K with 10-bit color. This is one of the biggest jumps in AI video length so far, and it lands at a sensitive moment for ByteDance after Hollywood studios forced it to halt Seedance 2.0’s global rollout earlier this year. In this article you’ll get the full breakdown of what Seedance 2.5 does, […]

The EU AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive law on artificial intelligence, formally Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, and it sorts every AI system into four risk tiers with fines reaching €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover. It entered into force on 1 August 2024, and the bulk of its rules apply from 2 August 2026, making this the year the law finally bites. The rollout has not been smooth. In May 2026 EU lawmakers agreed to push back the toughest deadlines through a package called the Digital Omnibus, and the rules touch the everyday AI tools you already use, from ChatGPT to Gemini to Claude. This guide breaks […]

Learning how to use Siri takes about ten seconds. Say “Siri” or “Hey Siri” and ask, or press a button and speak. The harder part is knowing what to actually say, because Siri can do far more than set a timer. It sends messages, gives directions, runs calculations, controls smart-home gear, translates phrases, and takes actions inside your apps, all hands-free across every Apple device you own. This guide covers how to activate and talk to Siri on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, a categorized library of the most useful Siri commands, and how to type to Siri when you can’t speak out loud. It also explains what changes […]

Mira Murati is the founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab and the former chief technology officer of OpenAI, where she led the development of ChatGPT, DALL-E and Sora. Born in Vlorë, Albania in 1988, she rose from a product role at Tesla to running the technology behind the most widely used AI products on earth, then walked away in September 2024 to build her own lab. In June 2026 she resurfaced after roughly 18 months of near-silence, unveiling a new class of AI she calls “interaction models.” This biography covers who Mira Murati is, where she comes from, and how an engineer from a small Albanian coastal city became […]

On June 22, 2026, Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Sakana Fugu, and it works unlike almost any model you’ve used. Instead of trying to be the smartest single brain in the room, Fugu is a language model trained to command a pool of other LLMs, including copies of itself, then blend their answers into one. Its top tier, Fugu Ultra, scores 73.7 on SWE-Bench Pro, a number Sakana says puts it shoulder-to-shoulder with Anthropic’s now-pulled Fable 5 and Mythos Preview. This article breaks down what Sakana Fugu actually is and how its “model that orchestrates models” idea works in plain English. We’ll check whether the Fable 5 comparison holds up, why […]

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 time. The number that matters most sits underneath that headline. Seed 2.1 Pro reached the top 10 in five of seven subcategories, and in the areas where it is strongest only a short list of frontier labs scored higher. This article breaks down exactly where the model ranks, why its React and design results stand […]

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 check first. The catch in 2026 is that a fourth reason now exists, the rebuilt Gemini-powered Siri that Apple unveiled at WWDC simply has not rolled out to every device yet. This guide walks you through every fix that actually works, ordered from the fastest to the most thorough, for both iPhone and Mac. You […]

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 voice mode. You do not need a paid plan, a coding background, or a single course to start getting useful work out of it today. This guide gives you a free, beginner-friendly Gemini course in roadmap form. You will get two clear paths to follow, an honest comparison of the free courses worth your time, […]

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 gap between open and closed AI has never been smaller. This guide ranks the open source AI models worth your time in 2026, what each one is genuinely best at, and how to actually run them without a rack of GPUs. We tested the picks against current benchmark data, license terms, and real accessibility, […]