About Technology Tutor Academy

A free online academy for AI & technology.

Technology Tutor Academy teaches AI and modern technology through structured courses, short plain-English explainers, and free hands-on tools. The goal is simple: help you understand how these technologies actually work, and how to use them in your real work — without jargon or hype.

What you'll learn

AI Updates

Model launches, capability shifts, industry moves.

Model releases, capability updates, safety announcements, and industry moves from the major AI labs and platforms.

AI Research

Papers, benchmarks, and safety findings.

New research papers, benchmark results, and safety findings from AI labs and academic groups — filtered for what shifts the field.

AI Tools & Agents

New AI-native tools, agents, and workflow platforms.

Launches and major updates for AI-native tools, agents, MCP servers, and workflow platforms that ship real capability.

Engineering & Devtools

Framework releases, infra, developer tooling.

Framework releases, infrastructure launches, and developer tool updates worth a working engineer's attention.

Product & UX

Design system launches and notable feature updates.

Notable product feature launches, design system releases, and platform UX updates worth a working PM's attention.

Startups & VC

Tech funding rounds, M&A, founder moves.

Tech-sector fundraises, acquisitions, and founder-side stories with just enough context to know why they matter.

SaaS & Platforms

Pricing changes, platform shifts, major releases.

Pricing changes, platform shifts, and major releases from the SaaS platforms teams actually depend on.

Fintech

Payments, banking, and financial infrastructure.

Payments infrastructure, neobank moves, embedded finance, and crypto launches that affect real products.

Cybersecurity

Breaches, vulnerabilities, defense launches.

Notable breaches, critical vulnerabilities, and security tooling launches — the stories teams need to act on.

Data & Analytics

Warehouses, BI, and data platform launches.

Data platform launches, warehouse and BI updates, and analytics stack changes teams feel week to week.

Enterprise IT

Cloud, ITSM, enterprise software launches.

Cloud provider announcements, ITSM shifts, and enterprise software moves at Microsoft, Google, AWS, ServiceNow, and peers.

Policy & Regulation

AI regs, privacy law, antitrust rulings.

AI regulation, privacy law, antitrust actions, and platform policy rulings with plain-English context on impact.

How the academy works

  1. 01Courses. Structured lessons that build from fundamentals to practical skills — vibe coding, prompt engineering, AI agents, and using AI at work.
  2. 02Explainers. Short, readable lessons on individual concepts, tools, and developments — grounded in primary sources so you can dig deeper when you want.
  3. 03Free tools. Prompt optimizer, model recommender, workflow builder, and more — hands-on practice so learning sticks.
  4. 04Ask the tutor. A free AI chat trained on every lesson — ask questions in plain English and get answers grounded in what's on the site.