I looked for a legal way to get Claude Pro for free, there is not one yet
Someone asked me straight out, is there a legal way to get Claude Pro for free. I went looking expecting to find at least one…
Gemini’s new watermark toggle hides the AI label, but not the evidence
Google is letting Gemini users hide the small spark icon that marks images, videos, and songs as AI generated. Josh Woodward, Google’s VP for Gemini,…
How I finally got an AI Polaroid photo that did not look like a filter
Your feed is full of grainy, slightly overexposed selfies with a white border and a light leak in the corner right now, and none of…
Waze’s Gemini update is here, but the feature you want most is still in beta
Google rolled out a Waze Gemini update on July 13, 2026, and the release draws a clear line between what US drivers get right now…
ChatGPT’s voice mode finally stops waiting for you to finish talking
OpenAI rolled out GPT-Live on July 8, 2026, a new voice engine meant to replace ChatGPT’s existing voice mode with something that behaves like an…
Google’s new video editing AI landed in Photos, and it skipped the free tier entirely
Google Photos just added an AI video editor called Video Remix, and it can rewrite an entire clip from a single typed prompt. Powered by…
Google’s free AI tools in 2026 are better than they get credit for
I keep a running list of AI tools I actually open more than once, and Google has ended up with more entries on it than…
I ran Kickbacks with Claude Code for a week to see if the spinner ads actually pay
Kickbacks is a VS Code extension that swaps the small “thinking…” line inside Claude Code for a five-second sponsored message, then pays you a cut…
Gemini Spark can now sort and manage files on your Mac without you
Google has started rolling out Gemini Spark for Mac, and the update changes what its AI agent is allowed to do with your files, not…
Gemini keeps throwing ‘Something went wrong (1099)’ and switching models only sometimes fixes it
“Something went wrong (1099)” is the message that shows up mid prompt in Google Gemini, usually right after the app has spent a few seconds…