Day: May 5, 2026

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Is Perplexity Pro Free for Students in 2026? What Still Works

Spent part of last week watching a student try the classic .edu email trick on Perplexity — the one that worked beautifully in 2024. Straight to a payment screen. No free year. No confirmation email.

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AI Just Got Its First Child Safety Watchdog — And Big Tech Funded It

The car industry didn’t clean up its act because automakers wanted to. It did it because someone started publishing crash test scores. Common Sense Media is betting the same logic holds for AI. On Tuesday,

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The $803B AI Illusion: How Big Tech Is Paying Itself to Fake Demand

The two most-hyped AI companies in the world don’t have customers. They have parents. Two weeks ago, Amazon and Google pledged a combined $65 billion in fresh investment into Anthropic — a company that had

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