If you have been keeping your course research in Google Drive folders — PDFs, mind maps, transcripts, Google Docs — Claude’s new connectors feature just turned that disorganized pile into a working course outline. No code. No copying and pasting between tools. Here is what changed and how to use it. ## What Are Claude…
The Problem: Tool Overload New AI tools launch daily. Grok 4, Kimi K2, Mistral, HyperClova — the list doesn’t stop. YouTube is full of “drop ChatGPT and use these 12 tools instead” videos. For educators trying to build a teaching business, this creates a constant distraction: should I switch? Am I missing out? Is this…
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 Changed in Google Drive Google added Gemini directly into Google Drive. It shows up as an “Ask Gemini” button in the upper right corner when you’re browsing any folder. Click it, and a side panel opens where you can chat with Gemini about everything in that folder — documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, markdown files….
What Comet Actually Is Comet is a free web browser from Perplexity built on Chromium (the same engine as Chrome). It looks and works like any browser — bookmarks, tabs, extensions — with one major difference. There’s an AI assistant panel built into the right side of every page you visit. That assistant can see…
What AI Browsers Actually Are An AI browser is a web browser with a large language model built directly into it. Instead of opening Chrome and then switching to ChatGPT in another tab, the AI lives inside the browser itself. It can see everything on the page you’re viewing — text, video, images — and…
ChatGPT’s Atlas browser gives students and course creators direct AI access inside YouTube — summarizing videos, comparing content, and creating study materials without leaving the browser. Here’s what that means for your courses.
The traditional definition of a “course” no longer fits how people actually learn. AI has shifted learning from static, linear content to dynamic, personalized, and competency-based experiences. So what do we call it now?
PDFs and checklists are dead as info products. Claude Skills — downloadable AI workflow packages — are the replacement. Here’s how to identify your process, build a skill, generate marketing materials, and sell it from your campus.
Google AI Studio lets you build functional AI apps by describing what you want. Add Supabase for registration, Stripe for payments, and Google Cloud for hosting — and you have a monetized app faster than you can record a course.