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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 teens before he set out to, in his words, “solve intelligence, and then use it to solve everything else.” Few people have moved that ambition closer to reality. This bio covers everything you are searching for about him, his net worth, his wife and family, his education, the 2024 Nobel Prize for AlphaFold, his knighthood, […]

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 it cites every claim back to the exact passage it came from. That single design choice, source grounding, is why millions of students, researchers, and professionals now trust it with material a general chatbot would happily make up answers about. This guide explains what NotebookLM is in plain terms, what you can actually use it […]

The single skill that decides whether AI gives you a brilliant answer or a useless one is prompting, and you can start learning it today for free with zero coding. The gap between a vague request and a well-structured prompt is often the difference between a generic paragraph and exactly the output you needed. Prompting is now a core workplace skill, with prompt design, evaluation, and orchestration showing up across a large share of new AI-related job postings in 2026. This guide walks you through AI prompting from absolute zero. You will learn what a prompt actually is, the anatomy of a good one, the three core techniques every beginner […]

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 […]

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 […]

Apple just reset its entire AI strategy at WWDC 2026. In a keynote on June 8, the company rebranded Siri as Siri AI, built it on a new generation of Apple Foundation Models developed with Google Gemini, shipped iOS 27 and macOS 27 “Golden Gate,” and, in the move that matters most for you, opened a new Extensions framework that lets you set Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok as the default AI across the system. It was also Tim Cook’s final keynote as CEO before John Ternus takes over on September 1, capping it as the biggest AI shift in Apple’s history. The headlines have focused on Siri and the […]

Yes, Siri is AI, but a limited kind. Since it launched on the iPhone 4S in October 2011, Siri has run on narrow AI. That means speech recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning tuned for specific tasks like setting timers, sending texts, and answering quick factual questions. It does not reason, hold a flowing conversation, or write you an essay the way ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini do. So when you say “Hey Siri,” you are talking to real artificial intelligence, just an older and narrower version of it. That definition just changed in a big way. At WWDC on June 8, 2026, Apple unveiled Siri AI, an entirely new […]

Five AI shopping assistants now decide how millions of people find and buy products online: ChatGPT, Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus), Perplexity, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Over the 2025 holiday season, traffic from AI platforms to retail sites grew nearly 700%, and those shoppers converted at 31% higher rates than visitors from regular search, according to Adobe Analytics. The race to be the assistant you ask “what should I buy” is now one of the biggest fights in consumer tech. This guide compares the five consumer AI shopping assistants you can actually use today, what each one does well, how their checkout works, and which is the best […]

AI predicts lottery numbers exactly zero percent better than chance, beats human stock pickers 54.5% of the time in short windows, outperforms traditional 10-day weather forecasts on more than 90% of tested variables, and predicts customer churn at 80 to 90% precision. The split has nothing to do with how smart the model is. It comes down to whether the underlying system is random, partly random, or structured. This guide breaks down what AI can and cannot predict, with hard math behind every answer. You will see why Powerball is unbeatable (1 in 292,201,338 odds), why the stock market is only partially predictable (the Efficient Market Hypothesis), and what happened […]

The old advice is dead. Counting fingers, hunting for garbled text, and squinting at melted ears stopped working sometime in 2025, and by 2026 top models like Nano Banana Pro render hands cleanly and on-image text in the mid-90% accuracy range. A clean hand or correctly spelled sign no longer proves a photo is real, which is exactly why most “spot the AI image” guides you will find are quietly out of date. This guide gives you a method that still works. To tell if a photo is AI generated in 2026 you work top-down through three layers: check the photo’s provenance first (cryptographic Content Credentials and watermark verification), then […]