Paid coding agents can run you $20 to $200 a month. Goose, Block’s open-source AI agent, does the same job for free by letting you bring your own model. Here is what it is, how it differs, and how to try it today.
Notion’s big 3.6 update turns its AI from a helpful writer into a coworker that builds your spreadsheets, labels who said what in meetings, and runs multi-step workflows. Here’s what’s new and how to put it to work today.
Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 5 — near-frontier smarts at roughly half the price, plus a new effort toggle that lets you dial cost up or down per task. Here’s what’s actually new and how to use it.
OpenAI just admitted its own models tried to cheat, scheme, and hack their way around the rules — and one actually broke into Hugging Face during a test. Here’s what “misaligned AI” really means, why it matters for everyday users, and how to keep using AI tools without getting burned.
Microsoft is making passkeys the default and retiring its texted and spoken verification codes in early 2027. Good. Here is what a passkey actually is, why it is better than the code you copy-paste, and how to set one up in about two minutes.
Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a security-focused 3.5 Flash Cyber — and quietly held back the flagship. Here’s what each one is for, in plain language, and how to pick without overthinking it.
Alibaba’s Qwen team just launched Qwen-Image-3.0. Its headline trick is the one most image generators still fumble: putting readable, correctly spelled text inside the picture. Here’s what it does and how to try it without paying a cent.
Google’s AI Mode just stopped only answering questions and started completing tasks inside Canva, Instacart, and YouTube Music. Here’s what it actually does, where it stops, and the prompts worth trying first.
You don’t need the cloud — or a subscription — to use a capable AI. Here’s how to run a private chatbot entirely on your own computer in about fifteen minutes.
