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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 June 2, 2026, at its Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a family of seven in-house AI models under the MAI brand, the most concrete step yet in the company’s plan to stop being just the best distributor of someone else’s frontier models. The lineup spans reasoning, coding, image generation, voice, and transcription, and it was unveiled during CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote alongside new agents, silicon, and a repositioning of Windows itself. The centerpiece is MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft’s first reasoning model. It is a 35 billion active parameter Mixture of Experts model that Microsoft says matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro and narrowly beat Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind human […]

If you are a student or teacher hoping to get Copilot free in 2026, the rules changed sharply this spring. GitHub paused new sign-ups for its free Copilot Student plan on April 20, 2026, with no reopening date announced. Verified students who activated Copilot before the pause keep free access under the new GitHub Copilot Student plan, live since March 12, 2026. On that plan, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.3-Codex, and Claude Opus and Sonnet are no longer pickable by hand. On the Microsoft side, eligible college students can still get Microsoft 365 Premium free for 12 months (then $19.99/month), and Copilot Chat is free with a school account on Microsoft 365 A1, […]

The question hanging over Silicon Valley right now is one that makes investors nervous – are we living through another tech bubble? With AI companies burning through hundreds of billions in funding and Nvidia alone worth more than the entire GDP of Canada, the scale of investment feels weirdly familiar to anyone who lived through the dotcom crash of 2000. Data center buildouts to support AI are expected to cost $364 billion in 2025 – making the entire cloud revolution look small in comparison. Meanwhile, a recent MIT study dropped a bombshell: 95% of enterprise AI projects are delivering zero return on investment. That’s a lot of money chasing very […]

More and more people are asking the same question – what actually is the best AI chatbot? With new AI models launching constantly and each company claiming theirs is the breakthrough everyone’s been waiting for, getting a straight answer feels harder and harder. Most “best of” lists online are either outdated, biased, or based on someone’s personal opinion rather than actual data. But we might finally have a clear answer. A recent study by Onelittleweb analyzed over 10,500 AI tools and nearly 100 billion web visits to figure out which chatbots are actually winning. Instead of relying on marketing claims or gut feelings, the study focused on real metrics – […]

As generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or Gemini become more common, their real-world impact on jobs is starting to take shape. In a major 2025 study, Microsoft Research analyzed 200,000 anonymized U.S.-based conversations with Bing Copilot to see what kinds of work tasks people are using AI for—and how well the AI handles them. By matching these tasks to official job categories from the O*NET database, the study maps out which occupations are most exposed to AI capabilities. Instead of speculating how many jobs AI might replace, the researchers introduced an “AI applicability score” for each job, based on task frequency, success rate, and how much of the […]

For most people, AI already feels like a revolution. Tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Grok can write emails, build apps, and generate entire videos – tasks that would’ve taken entire teams just a few years ago. But for the CEOs building these technologies, what we’ve seen so far is just the beginning. Nearly 78,000 tech jobs were cut between January and June 2025, many directly tied to AI-driven automation in giants like Amazon and Microsoft. And according to a recent World Economic Forum report, 41% of employers worldwide now plan to reduce their workforce because of AI. CEOs at the helm of companies like Anthropic, Nvidia, and Google have begun […]

Imagine a world where computers don’t just crunch numbers. They will be so powerful that they can do anything possible, solving complex problems that today’s machines would need centuries to crack.  This is the dream of quantum computing, a technology that promises to transform everything from medicine to climate science. Unlike the computers we use every day, which rely on bits (those tiny switches that are either 0 or 1), quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, that can be 0, 1, or both at the same time. This superpower lets them tackle calculations at mind-blowing speeds. But despite how mind-blowing this sounds, we have a problem: quantum computing has […]