What Happened with Grok Companions Grok (the AI from X/Twitter) launched something called Grok Companions — 3D animated characters that interact with you verbally, with facial expressions, emotional tone, and natural conversation flow. The initial launch targeted adult companionship, but the underlying technology is what matters here. These are fully animated AI characters that can…
What Google Portraits Is Google Portraits is an experiment from Google Labs that turns subject matter experts into AI-powered coaching avatars. These aren’t chatbots — they’re voice-enabled, animated avatars that interact with you conversationally, complete with emotional expression, tone variation, and natural speech patterns. The first examples feature real experts: Kim Scott (author of Radical…
What Genie 3 Is Genie 3 is a tool from Google DeepMind that generates interactive virtual worlds from a text prompt. These are not pre-built games or pre-recorded videos. The environment is created live as you explore it, and it reacts to your movements and actions in real time. It has world memory — meaning…
What You’ll Learn OpenAI’s Atlas browser does three things that will eat traditional online courses alive: it’s always with you, it has memory, and it takes action. This tutorial explains why the LMS model is cooked and what educators, coaches, trainers, and consultants should build instead. The Three Things Atlas Does 1. It’s Always There…
What You’ll Learn Google AI Studio’s “Build” feature lets you create custom teaching applications in under 60 seconds — no coding required. This tutorial shows educators, coaches, trainers, and consultants how to create throwaway apps that give students real learning experiences instead of passive content consumption. What Are Throwaway Apps? These are quick, purpose-built mini…
What You’ll Learn Google just baked Gemini AI directly into Chrome. Every tab, every page, your entire browsing history — all accessible to an AI that can see, hear, and understand everything on your screen. This tutorial explains why this changes everything for educators, coaches, trainers, and consultants. What Just Happened Google announced Gemini integration…
The Threat Is Already Here James Maduk from TrainingSites.io spent 45 minutes with a college professor during a VIP campus builders session. Together, they built a Claude Cowork plugin that completely prepares a live class — agenda, activities, resources, use cases, and a 13-slide PowerPoint presentation — from a single topic title. It took 7–10…
The Problem With Traditional Cohorts Most online cohorts follow the same pattern: you deliver content for 60–90 minutes, then send students away to do homework. The result? Students get stuck, fall behind, or quietly disappear before the next session. It’s exhausting for you too. Before each session, you have to research, organize, and prepare a…
Is It Even Worth Learning Anymore? Two months into 2026, AI agents are available to everyone — including the people who used to buy your courses. The question worth sitting with isn’t “how do I add AI to my curriculum?” It’s bigger than that: what does learning actually look like now, and what role does…
Class Agenda Duration: 60 minutes | Format: Live via Zoom | Audience: Educators, coaches, consultants, and 45+ solopreneurs Time Block What Happens Facilitation Notes 0:00–0:03 Welcome & Check-in One-word chat waterfall: “Type one word that describes how you feel about AI right now — don’t hit enter until I say GO.” Builds energy, surfaces fear/excitement…
?JOIN THE COMMUNITY https://trainingsites.io/join Discover what happened when I tasked Manus.im to create a complete Google NotebookLM course with just one request. In this eye-opening demonstration, I reveal the shocking capabilities of AI agents in educational content creation and what this means for course creators everywhere. ? Watch the demo and decide for yourself!https://zkmgsbta.manus.space/ –…
?JOIN THE COMMUNITY https://trainingsites.io/join Google’s Gemini Flash 2 APP and the new Canvas features strategically positioned itself to win the AI race. Everything is getting connexted now! ? Perfect for: Course creators, coaches, and content creators who already have podcasts, interviews, or existing videos they want to repurpose. ? Don’t forget to like, comment, and…