Five AI language apps to try when Duolingo is not enough
A learner who leaves Duolingo is often reacting to a gap rather than rejecting the app itself. A language app should solve one visible problem. Some…
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A learner who leaves Duolingo is often reacting to a gap rather than rejecting the app itself. A language app should solve one visible problem. Some…
The public story is tempting because it has a clean sentence: Anthropic launched two new models, then a government order interrupted them, then access returned. That…
Artificial intelligence will not turn a mediocre vineyard into a great estate, nor will it give a young distillery the patience of a master blender. Its…
OpenAI released GPT-Live on July 8, 2026, and by early the next morning it had reached full rollout for paying subscribers. The company calls it a…
OpenAI moved GPT-5.6 out of a tightly controlled preview and into general use on Thursday, July 9, 2026. Sam Altman posted a short "happy building" note…
Ninety-two percent of nonprofits now use artificial intelligence in some form, but only 7% say it has produced a major improvement in what their organization can…
A phone buzzes eight seconds before the shaking starts. Somewhere underground, a fault has already ruptured, and the P-wave, the fast, low-energy tremor that outruns the…
On June 30, 2026, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signed an order lifting the export controls that had kept Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5…
GLM-5.2 is a large language model released by Z.ai, the Beijing company formerly known as Zhipu AI, a lab that spun out of Tsinghua University in…
On June 30, 2026, Anthropic put a new application in front of scientists and called it Claude Science, an AI workbench built for research rather than…
A request for “all AI models” sounds straightforward until the first distinction is made: there is no stable, complete public list of every AI model in…
The most unsettling thing about The Terminator is no longer the metal skeleton, the time travel, or the impossible certainty of a computer that decides humanity…
Steve Jobs would almost certainly have been fascinated by today’s artificial intelligence. He spent much of his life arguing that the computer was not merely a…
Artificial intelligence is changing the payment system from both directions. Banks, card networks and fintech companies use machine learning to identify suspicious transactions, automate customer service,…
On June 30, 2026, Google released a smaller, faster, cheaper version of its Nano Banana image model and a developer-ready version of its conversational video model…
Artificial intelligence has become a real, measurable source of gold demand. High-performance computing uses gold in bonding wire, connectors and interconnect materials whose reliability matters in…
Artificial intelligence can imitate the language of attention, and it will imitate it more persuasively as speech, memory, animation and robotics improve. It can answer at…
Grok 4.5 is now a real public claim, but it is not yet a public product in the ordinary sense. Elon Musk said on June 28,…
OpenAI used a June 26, 2026 post to preview a new model family rather than ship it. The announcement covers three models under the GPT-5.6 name:…
Ask a model a lazy question and you get a lazy answer. Ask it a precise one and the same model, on the same day, with…
Dola.com is now the public home of a broad consumer AI assistant rather than a narrow scheduling tool. Its own product positioning is plain: chat, write,…
AI veganism is a loose label for people who choose to avoid artificial intelligence entirely, or to restrict their use of it sharply, because they object…
Open LinkedIn on any weekday and the supply of artificial-intelligence expertise looks limitless. Profiles that said "marketing manager" in 2022 now say "AI strategist." Newsletters promise…
Latin America did not wait for permission to start using artificial intelligence. By late 2025, roughly 65% of consumers across the region were already using AI…
OpenAI’s June 26, 2026 preview of GPT-5.6 Sol is not a routine model release with a larger benchmark chart and a broader chatbot rollout. It is…
Samsung is not entering an empty market. Meta has already built the closest thing the smart-glasses category has to a consumer lead: camera-and-audio glasses sold through…
Sakana AI’s Fugu arrived in general availability on June 22, 2026 with a proposition that cuts against the usual race to train ever larger standalone models.…
OpenAI shipped a feature on June 18, 2026 that changes how people teach Codex to do work. It is called Record & Replay, and the premise…
As of late June 2026, there is no official release date for GPT-5.6, and no version of ChatGPT carries that number. OpenAI has not published a…
For the first time since OpenAI launched its chatbot in late 2022, ChatGPT no longer accounts for the majority of the AI assistant market. According to…
On June 17, 2026, at an event in San Francisco, David Holz stood on stage and described a machine that images the inside of a human…
For three years the economics of AI-assisted programming sat behind a curtain. You paid a flat monthly fee, the assistant lived inside your editor, and the…
The web is filling with material that used to be costly enough to act as its own filter. A book needed a writer, editor, cover designer,…