Plain-English guides to using AI day to day, from picking tools and writing better prompts to AI on your phone, glasses and search results.
VS Code 1.143 makes the Copilot harness the default for new agent sessions, adds a Compare Models preview that runs one task through Copilot, Claude and Codex harnesses with an optional judge, and lets you run MAI Code 1.1 Flash on a 96 GB GPU.
Notion Agents now get a computer and web browser and can run tasks for up to 24 hours. Business and Enterprise seats get 1,500 Standard and 500 Select credits a month, extra credits cost $10 per 1,000, and existing workspaces switch on November 2.
Ten real AI tools for spreadsheets, grouped by job: Copilot in Excel, Gemini in Google Sheets, Claude for Excel, Shortcut, ChatGPT, Julius AI, GPTExcel, Numerous.ai, Rows and Better Analyst. What each does, its main limit, and prices only where the vendor's page states them.
Google started rolling out Personal Intelligence on Android Auto, letting Gemini use your Gmail, Calendar and Photos while you drive, and added Gemini to Google Maps navigation on CarPlay in the US. What each does, who is eligible, and the privacy settings.
Thirty copy-paste ChatGPT prompts for teachers: lesson plans, differentiation, rubrics, feedback on student work and family emails. Built on OpenAI Academy's teacher guides, with a privacy note and a check to run before class. Prompts untested; review every output.
Asymptote Labs raised a $5.5M seed for Beacon, an MIT-licensed tool that records sessions from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 20+ other agents and turns reviewed lessons into reusable skills. How it works, what Pro costs, and what to check first.
OpenAI plans to retire custom GPTs on Dec 11, 2026 and move them to plugins. Here is what transfers, what does not, the five migration steps, and a tested prompt for turning old GPT instructions into a plugin brief, as of October 2026.
Greptile raised a $50M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $750M valuation. It says it reviews over 1% of GitHub PRs daily. How TREX runs your code, how Model Inversion picks the reviewer, and what Base, Plus and Apex reviews cost.
Town raised $108M at a $1B valuation and now lets each employee's AI assistant, a Townie, work with teammates' Townies and with outside contacts. What it does, plans from $0 to $199 per user a month billed annually, and what to check before you connect your inbox.
Krea 3 is Krea's new image editing model: native 2K edits in under 8 seconds, up to 6 references in the app, and $0.06 per image. Here is how Krea's speed and price numbers compare, what the API supports, how to prompt it, and what is still missing.
Eleven real AI tools for YouTubers, grouped by job: Ask Studio, A/B testing and auto dubbing inside YouTube Studio, plus vidIQ, TubeBuddy, Descript, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, OpusClip, ElevenLabs and Canva. What each does, its main limit, and prices only where the vendor's page states them.
Tolan, the AI companion app with a customizable character, raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew. About 250,000 people use it monthly, about 70% of them women. What it does, what it costs, its safety features, and the free tier the money will fund.
A beginner's guide to running an AI model on your own computer with Ollama, LM Studio or llama.cpp: hardware needs, install steps, small models to start with, and our real test results on a CPU-only Linux machine, as of October 2026.
Suno launched its v6 family on September 9, 2026, and is retiring its older models. What v6, v6-wild and v6-mini do, who gets each one, what Suno says they were trained on, the Warner, BMG and Believe deals, and the new Universal and Sony lawsuit.
Six vibe coding tools as of October 2026: browser app builders Lovable, Bolt, Replit and v0, and code-first agents Cursor and Claude Code. Free plans, entry paid plans from $8 a month, how each meters usage, and the main limit of each.
Eleven AI homework helpers grouped by job: photo solvers, math engines, AI tutors with guided learning modes, and study and writing tools. What each does, what is free, and paid prices checked on vendor pages as of October 2026.
Official October 2026 prices for ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS, Google Cloud TTS, WellSaid, Murf, Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, Soundraw and AIVA, with monthly and yearly billing called out for each plan.
Epic's Claude Code plugin for Unreal went viral this weekend, but it dates to June. It packages a skill and hook for Unreal MCP, the Experimental UE 5.8 server that also works with Cursor and Codex. Setup steps, toolsets, and Epic's security warnings.
monday.com launched Harmony, a voice AI platform whose agents call leads, qualify them, handle objections and hand warm prospects to reps. It uses small task-specific models, starts at $0.39 a minute plus $250 a month, and runs in the US, UK, Australia and Singapore.
Eleven real AI tools for teachers, grouped by job: teacher versions of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, plus MagicSchool, Brisk, Khanmigo, Diffit, Curipod, Canva and Gradescope. What each does, its main limit, and prices only where the vendor's page states them.
