Plain-language explanations of the terms and ideas behind today's AI.
Start hereEveryone
What AI is, how to ask it, and what to watch out for — the basics everyone should start with, whatever their job.
5 guides41 min in totalBeginner
Going furtherEveryone
Once you have the basics, learn the patterns most AI products are built on.
3 guides36 min in totalBeginner → Practical
Explainer8 min
The technology behind ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, explained without the math.
Explainer9 min
How do chatbots answer from your company's documents? Here's how RAG, a pattern widely used in AI products, works.
How-to guide10 min
Role, context, task, format and an example — five things that noticeably change what AI gives back.
Explainer7 min
Why AI states wrong things with confidence, where it slips most often, and how to check its answers.
How-to guide8 min
What not to paste into AI, how to swap in fake values when you must, and what to check before you start.
Explainer8 min
What "$2 per million tokens" on an AI price list means, and how to estimate what your own usage would cost.
How-to guide9 min
Tell the assistant who will read it and what shape the three lines should take, and a long report comes back as a summary you can pass straight on. This guide also shows how to check its figures against the original.
How-to guide10 min
Tell the assistant who you're writing to, what you need, by when and in what tone, and it drafts an email that fits. Worked examples for requests, apologies and refusals, plus what to check before you send.
Explainer9 min
Unlike a chatbot that only answers, an agent takes a goal and keeps going, using tools and checking results, until the job is done. How it works, what it suits, and what to settle before you hand it work.
Anthropic will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, subject to stockholder approval.
SmartBiz Expo 2026, hosted by Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups with Samsung Electronics among the organizers, ran October 13–16 at COEX in Seoul.
Samsung Electronics is expanding the languages supported by Galaxy AI and Bixby.
NVIDIA committed $250 million worth of compute over five years to strengthen agentic AI safety and security research in the UK.
Google DeepMind and Singapore's Government Technology Agency built an AI model that spots scam conversations on the phone itself.
Anthropic introduced a life sciences research group and lab, and shared early results in which Claude found a new enzyme system reminiscent of CRISPR.
Microsoft researchers introduced StudentSim, AI simulators that imitate individual real students.
Google launched Playground, an experimental platform for creating, playing and sharing games through conversation, with no coding.
Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, a lightweight embedding model that maps text, images, audio and video into one space.
