What Can AI Do for Researchers? Tools, Use Cases, and How to Get Started
AI is transforming how scientists search literature, analyze data, and write up results. Here is what the tools can do today and where to start.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Science, an AI Workbench for Researchers
Anthropic released Claude Science in beta on June 30, an integrated environment connecting AI to 60+ scientific databases and lab compute for biomedical and life sciences research.
Read more →What Is Claude? Anthropic's AI Assistant, Explained
Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic, built on a safety-first training approach and available through the web, mobile apps, and a developer API.
Read more →Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5, Its Most Capable Mid-Tier Model
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, bringing near-Opus performance to its mid-tier line with autonomous agent capabilities at introductory API pricing of $2 per million input tokens.
Read more →How to Use AI in Sales — Tools, Use Cases, and Where to Start
AI helps sales teams find better leads, write personalized outreach, and close more deals in less time. Here are the tools and use cases that actually work.
Read more →What Is GitHub Copilot — and How Does It Help You Write Code Faster?
GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant built into your editor that suggests code, answers questions, and can now autonomously complete multi-step tasks. Here's how it works and what it costs.
Read more →GitHub Copilot's First Usage-Based Bills Land, Some Developers Face 10x–50x Surges
The first full billing cycle under GitHub Copilot's new token-based pricing model closed June 30, with some developers reporting monthly costs jumping from $29 to $750 or from $50 to $3,000.
Read more →How to Use AI in Marketing -- Tools, Use Cases, and Where to Start
AI tools now handle everything from writing ad copy to personalizing customer campaigns. Here is what marketers actually use and how to get started without disrupting what already works.
Read more →How to Use AI to Learn New Skills and Stay Relevant at Work
A practical guide to using AI tools for upskilling: what skills are worth learning, how to use AI as a personal tutor, and where to start — at any career stage.
Read more →OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Under US Government Restrictions
OpenAI unveiled three new models — Sol, Terra, and Luna — on June 26, but restricted access to government-vetted partners following a White House request on frontier AI oversight.
Read more →What Is Qwen? Alibaba's Open AI Model Family Explained
Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) is Alibaba Cloud's family of open-weight AI models — covering language, code, vision, audio, and more — and the world's most-downloaded AI model series as of 2026.
Read more →What Can AI Do for Designers? A Practical Guide
Artificial intelligence is now a practical daily tool for UI/UX and graphic designers — from generating image variants to auto-renaming layers and building prototypes. This guide explains what AI handles, what it still can't do, and where to start.
Read more →Figma Launches Native Animation Tool and Upgraded AI Agent at Config 2026
At its annual Config conference on June 24, Figma introduced Motion, a built-in timeline animation tool, and an upgraded Design Agent with reusable skills, external connectors to Notion and GitHub, and AI-generated shader fills.
Read more →What Are Open-Source AI Models — and Why Do They Matter?
Open-source AI models release their trained weights publicly, letting anyone run, study, or customize them without paying API fees. This guide explains what that means in practice and how to get started.
Read more →What Is On-Device AI — and Why It Matters
On-device AI runs machine learning models directly on your phone, laptop, or chip — without sending data to the cloud. It is the technology behind Apple Intelligence, Google Gemini Nano, and a new wave of ultra-small models like Liquid AI's LFM2.5-230M.
Read more →Liquid AI Ships 230M Open Model for On-Device AI Agents
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-230M, a 230-million-parameter open-weight model that runs AI agent tasks at 213 tokens per second on a phone CPU and 42 tokens per second on a Raspberry Pi — without a cloud connection.
Read more →What Is Google Gemini?
Google Gemini is Google's flagship AI assistant, available free at gemini.google.com. This explainer covers what it can do, how it compares to ChatGPT and Claude, and what the free and paid tiers include.
Read more →How to Use ChatGPT — A Complete Beginner's Guide
A step-by-step guide to getting started with ChatGPT: how to sign up for free, which features to try first, and when a paid plan is worth it.
Read more →ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.1 Claims Parity With GPT-5.5 on Agent Tasks
ByteDance launched Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo on June 23, claiming top scores on coding and agent benchmarks and parity with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7.
Read more →What Is an AI Agent? A Plain-Language Guide
An AI agent is software that can plan, make decisions, and take actions on your behalf — going far beyond a basic chatbot. Here is how they work and where to try one.
Read more →OpenAI Removes GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT, Closing the GPT-4 Chapter
OpenAI retired GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT on June 26, removing the last GPT-4-era model from the consumer app after a 30-day notice period. API access remains unchanged.
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