The five essential free AI tools for beginners in 2026: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and NotebookLM, with...
Andrew Friedman
I test every new LLM that comes out, every agent SDK, every no-code tool that claims to replace a workflow. Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, the open-source models dropping on Hugging Face, MCP servers, orchestration frameworks: I've got tabs open on the changelogs of all these products at any given time, and I pay for more AI subscriptions than I actually use.
On AI Noobies I translate all of this for readers who are new to AI and want to know what matters this week, without having to read five technical newsletters or run their own tests on a release that'll be obsolete in ten days.
Claude Sonnet 5 is now the default free model, better at multi-step tasks and cheaper for businesses...
Meta just banned engineers from using Claude Code and Codex. The AI Labs Ban era is here....
Google's Gemini now generates personalized AI images for free in the US using Nano Banana. It pulls...
Dawn Song just joined Meta to lead AI research. Her message: the next big step is AI...
A new Tencent study finds AI agents complete only 14 percent of real web tasks. The autonomous...
Anthropic Mythos is back: the Commerce Department cleared the AI cybersecurity model for 100 trusted US companies...
GPT-5.6 starts with a small group picked by the White House. A wider release comes only after,...
Anthropic's Claude Tag lives inside Slack, remembers your team's work, and acts on its own. Here is...
AI loops let agents code on their own all night. Inside Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI, the bots...
