Perplexity AI

The implicit bargain of the 2026 internet—our attention for free information—is broken. Search has devolved into a “messy” battle against sponsored content and SEO-optimized noise, making the simple act of finding knowledge an exercise in cognitive endurance. In response to an ecosystem riddled with cognitive friction, a new kind of AI-driven answer engine, Perplexity AI, … Read more

I’m the kind of person who usually has twenty tabs open when I’m shopping for tech. I’ll have Reddit in one, a spreadsheet in another, and three different price-tracking extensions screaming at me. It’s exhausting. But last week, I stumbled onto a “hack” that felt like I’d cheated the system. I didn’t find it on … Read more

We’ve all been there. It’s 10:00 PM, and you have a massive project due. You need a deep, data-backed report that doesn’t just skim the surface but actually understands the nuance of the topic. Usually, this means three days of “tab hell”—opening 50 different Chrome tabs, cross-referencing PDFs, and trying to figure out if that … Read more

I never thought I’d see the day. For nearly two decades, my digital life was anchored by a single, four-colored verb: Google it. Need a recipe? Google it. Fact-checking a heated debate at dinner? Google it. Troubleshooting a cryptic error code on my laptop? Google it. But as we step into 2026, something has fundamentally … Read more