In December 2025, Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, added generative AI to its search results with two features, AI Overviews and AI Chat. The move split its audience instantly. Some users welcomed a greener way to use AI, while many long-time fans pushed back hard, calling it the one thing a climate-focused search engine should never touch. This guide explains exactly what Ecosia AI is, which models run it, whether it actually uses water, and how it stacks up against ChatGPT. You will also get the four-step process to turn AI off completely if you would rather keep your search clean. We have pulled every figure from Ecosia’s […]

Apple Intelligence is Apple’s built-in artificial intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and in 2026 it got its biggest overhaul yet. At WWDC 2026 on June 8, Apple introduced Siri AI, a far more capable assistant running on a custom Google Gemini model. It joins writing tools, image generation, photo editing, and notification summaries that already ship on hundreds of millions of devices. It runs most tasks on-device for privacy and sends heavier requests to Private Cloud Compute. This guide explains what Apple Intelligence is, exactly what it does, which iPhones, iPads, and Macs support it, and how the new Gemini-powered Siri AI changes things. You will also see […]

You can learn to use AI confidently in 2 to 4 weeks, and you do not need to code, pay for a bootcamp, or understand the math behind neural networks to start. Knowing how to learn AI in 2026 comes down to two clear routes, becoming an AI power user who gets far more done with tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, or becoming an AI builder who writes the software behind them. Most people only need the first one, and that path is free, fast, and entirely no-code. This roadmap covers both routes so you can pick the right one for your goal. You will get a realistic timeline, […]

A single text prompt to Google Gemini uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity and roughly 0.26 millilitres of water, around five drops. A comparable ChatGPT query sits near 0.34 watt-hours, meaning Gemini uses roughly 29% less energy per prompt. Those numbers sound tiny, but multiply them by billions of prompts a day and the footprint of everyday AI use becomes very real. So which AI is the most eco-friendly, and is switching to a dedicated “green” AI tool actually worth it? This guide ranks the mainstream models by energy and water use, breaks down the dedicated eco-friendly AI tools worth knowing, and shows you the single most effective thing you […]

Genspark AI is an all-in-one AI workspace built around a “Super Agent,” an autonomous assistant that plans and finishes multi-step tasks for you instead of just answering questions. It can research a topic, build a slide deck, generate images and video, take meeting notes, and even pick up the phone and make real calls on your behalf. The company behind it, US startup MainFunc, has raised $545 million in funding and, by multiple reports, crossed $250M in annual recurring revenue within roughly 12 months of launch, one of the fastest climbs the AI agent space has seen. If you searched for Genspark expecting a search engine, that reputation is now […]

On May 13, 2026, Amazon retired the standalone Rufus chatbot and replaced it with Alexa for Shopping, a new agentic AI assistant built straight into the main Amazon search bar. Rufus had helped over 300 million customers in 2025 research and compare products, so this is not a quiet tweak. The separate Rufus chat window is gone, and its recommendations and product expertise now live inside a single, more capable assistant. If you opened the Amazon app recently and noticed Rufus missing, you did not lose anything. This guide explains exactly what happened to Rufus, what Alexa for Shopping can do, how to access it for free, and whether the […]

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first model in a brand new top tier the company calls the Mythos class. This is not another point upgrade in the Opus line. Anthropic describes Fable 5 as a model that sits above Opus in raw capability. It is state of the art on nearly every benchmark it was tested on, and it is the most powerful model the company has ever made available to the general public. It launched alongside a sibling model, Claude Mythos 5. That model is the same underlying system with the safety guardrails lifted, available only to a small set of vetted users. Fable […]

A Chinese AI lab just released a free model that scores 80.8 on SWE-Bench Verified and 75.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, putting it in the same league as GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 on real coding work. It is called Nex-N2-Pro, it dropped on June 2, 2026, and it costs nothing to download. The model comes from Nex AGI, ships under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, and is built specifically for agentic tasks like writing code, calling tools, and running long, multi-step workflows on its own. This is one of the clearest signs yet that open-source AI has caught up with the frontier on the tasks developers actually care about. In […]

Update — June 8, 2026: Refreshed pricing, rollout status, and benchmarks for June. Grok 4.3 has now reached standard SuperGrok and X Premium+ seats, not just the $300 Heavy tier. For the deep dive, read our Grok 4.3 review. ChatGPT now runs on GPT-5.5, launched on April 23, 2026, while Grok is powered by Grok 4.3 (released April 30, 2026), the successor to Grok 4.20 from xAI. Both chatbots have evolved significantly over the past year, and picking between them is no longer as simple as “ChatGPT is the default.” Grok has grown from 1.9% US market share to 17.8% in just 12 months, while ChatGPT still dominates with over […]

An AI shopping assistant is the reason you can now type “find me a warm waterproof jacket under $120 with good reviews” into a chat box and get a real shortlist back in seconds. In 2026 these tools moved from novelty to mainstream, with traffic to retail sites from generative AI up 693% over the 2025 holiday season according to Adobe Analytics, and the biggest one, Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping, already used by over 250 million people. This guide explains what an AI shopping assistant actually is, what it does, how it differs from the old chatbots stuck on store websites, and which ones you can use today. You will […]