AI Prompting | Beginners in AI

AI PromptingContent to help readers master the art of AI prompting with practical tips and strategies for generating high-quality outputs. Learn how to craft effective prompts for AI models like ChatGPT, Canva, Midjourney, Runway, Kling, Grok, Claude, Hailuo, and Ollama, boosting creativity, productivity, and efficiency across various tasks and professions.

Amazon's $199 Alexa Clock Listens for Your Breathing to Wake You Gently

Amazon's $199 Alexa Clock Listens for Your Breathing to Wake You Gently

...and Mistral lets anyone download a trillion-parameter AI, Meta lends its AI to five universities for medical research, and Google's parent loses $511 billion in a day

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Scored 88.2% on a Test of Finding Software Holes

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Scored 88.2% on a Test of Finding Software Holes

...and Gemini turns lessons into worlds you can tap through, ChatGPT's dots start texting you first, and experts copied an AI's coin-flip pick 86% of the time

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Anthropic Bought a One-Person Drug Startup That Ran 11 Labs With Claude

Anthropic Bought a One-Person Drug Startup That Ran 11 Labs With Claude

...and Google's Genie 4 builds worlds that talk back, a free AI answers emergency questions offline, and Discord opens 63,000 servers to Google search

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Anthropic Files to Go Public After Revenue Jumped 1,300% to $16.3 Billion

Anthropic Files to Go Public After Revenue Jumped 1,300% to $16.3 Billion

...and Siri learns five new languages, OpenAI's faster computer-using AI at half the price, and Meta's $95 billion stock sale for AI

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Grok Made 7 Minutes of an AI Odyssey, and Some Shots Pass for Real Film

Grok Made 7 Minutes of an AI Odyssey, and Some Shots Pass for Real Film

...and a robot brain that runs robots it has never seen, Britain's £100 million AI lab for vaccines, and an old AI that beat new chatbots at skin cancer

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

AI Found 20-Year-Old Holes in PHP. GPT-6 Learned the Code Behind Your ATM

AI Found 20-Year-Old Holes in PHP. GPT-6 Learned the Code Behind Your ATM

...and AI did real science in the lab, agents started running your errands, and Amex cut 5% of its staff for AI

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

OpenAI Says Its Best AI Can't Be Trusted Online, So It Trains Offline Now

OpenAI Says Its Best AI Can't Be Trusted Online, So It Trains Offline Now

...and Claude found hundreds of hidden bugs with math proofs, a $399 robot duck sold 20,000 in a day, and Amex cuts 5% of its staff for AI

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Microsoft's AI Solved 83% of Hard Medical Cases. Doctors Solved 36%

Microsoft's AI Solved 83% of Hard Medical Cases. Doctors Solved 36%

...and 1Password lets AI agents log in for you, Canva launches its own image maker, and OpenAI's agents switched off their safety alerts

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

AI Found Two Critical Holes in PHP, the Code Behind 70% of Websites

AI Found Two Critical Holes in PHP, the Code Behind 70% of Websites

...and Gemini now talks you through Google Maps on CarPlay, Walmart welcomes AI shopping agents, and Anthropic launched Claude Duet

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Claude Designed 17 Proteins That Latch Onto Scorpion Toxins in 64 Hours

Claude Designed 17 Proteins That Latch Onto Scorpion Toxins in 64 Hours

...and Yelp's AI calls restaurants about the wait, Spotify pulled 50 million AI spam tracks, and OpenAI bought a drug development startup

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

GPT-6 Jumped From 10.9% to 72.1% on COBOL, the Code Behind Your ATM

GPT-6 Jumped From 10.9% to 72.1% on COBOL, the Code Behind Your ATM

...and Gemini Notebook lets you fix slides before they're made, people use AI to strip ads off smart TVs, and Meta's Muse agent gave a stranger a seller's address

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Anthropic Pledges 5% of Its Shares to a Public Fund for AI's Hit on Jobs

Anthropic Pledges 5% of Its Shares to a Public Fund for AI's Hit on Jobs

...and OpenAI says it will build a humanoid robot, Google's AI now writes 75% of its code, and big banks block AI agents from your money

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

ChatGPT Can Now Work in Your Chrome Tabs. Amex Wants Proof Before AI Buys

ChatGPT Can Now Work in Your Chrome Tabs. Amex Wants Proof Before AI Buys

...and an AI that reads your old MRI to predict if breast cancer comes back

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

An FDA-Cleared AI Reads Your Old MRI to Predict If Breast Cancer Returns

An FDA-Cleared AI Reads Your Old MRI to Predict If Breast Cancer Returns

...and ChatGPT can now work inside your Chrome tabs, Claude cracks a 25-year encryption mystery, and OpenAI's test agents went off script again

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Amazon's $75 Bee Turns Talks Into To-Dos, and Says It Deletes the Audio

Amazon's $75 Bee Turns Talks Into To-Dos, and Says It Deletes the Audio

...and a coder used Claude to clone Microsoft Office for free, Google's Universal Cart tracks prices across stores, and AI doubles long-range weather forecasts

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

AI Bots Wasted 17 Years of Scammers' Time Across 2.5 Million Chats

AI Bots Wasted 17 Years of Scammers' Time Across 2.5 Million Chats

...and Grok gets the fastest AI voice yet, YouTube Music labels AI songs, and Anthropic sets its midterm rules for Claude

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Google Says Gemini 4 Argon Blocks All but 0.7% of Hijack Attempts

Google Says Gemini 4 Argon Blocks All but 0.7% of Hijack Attempts

...and Google Play runs AI-built apps just for you, Facebook takes feed requests in plain words, and Character.AI files for bankruptcy

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Meta's New AI Remembers Your Life Across Chats, and Meta Graded Itself

Meta's New AI Remembers Your Life Across Chats, and Meta Graded Itself

...and AI agents that take apart apps, blueprints drawn in minutes, and small AI models that can copy themselves

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

An AI Reviewer Caught 73% of Planted Errors in Research Papers

An AI Reviewer Caught 73% of Planted Errors in Research Papers

...and more than 20 AI assistants you can text, driverless trucks ditch warning triangles, and Microsoft's CEO calls for an AI emergency brake

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

An AI Sent Police a Fake Murder Tip. Another Tried to Cheat at StarCraft

An AI Sent Police a Fake Murder Tip. Another Tried to Cheat at StarCraft

and 722 math papers from a secret OpenAI model

Anthropic's Test Agents Filed 20 Visa Applications and a Fake Murder Tip

Anthropic's Test Agents Filed 20 Visa Applications and a Fake Murder Tip

...and Grok Bot gets its own email address, Google's chatbot preps urgent-care doctors, and a $50M cap turns thoughts into prompts

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Claude Stitched 38,000 Telescope Shots Into a Full UV Map of the Sky

Claude Stitched 38,000 Telescope Shots Into a Full UV Map of the Sky

...and Gemini becomes an agent that does the work, Claude's Docs and Slides go free, and OpenAI's 722 math papers meet skeptics

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

OpenAI Gives GPT-6 to 1.2 Billion ChatGPT Users, Free Plan Included

OpenAI Gives GPT-6 to 1.2 Billion ChatGPT Users, Free Plan Included

...and Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts prices about 75%, Google opens its AI image checker to everyone, and ChatGPT for Teens gets a failing grade

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Google's AI Helped Find 45,500 People at Risk of Ebola in Minutes

Google's AI Helped Find 45,500 People at Risk of Ebola in Minutes

...and Mistral builds a 1 trillion parameter model, Pinterest turns beauty Pins into salon plans, and websites start blocking AI shoppers

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

A Woman Used Claude as a Diary, and Anthropic Reported It to Police

A Woman Used Claude as a Diary, and Anthropic Reported It to Police

...and Reflection's new open model takes on China, OpenAI pledges a Codex upgrade a day, and ChatGPT puts ads beside your images

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski