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Learn AI for real.

27 guides in three paths. Each explains the "why", gives a practical method, copyable examples and pitfalls to avoid. Level shown on each.

01

Understand

What happens inside a model: no formulas, no wrong shortcuts.

A path from a 1950s computer and a chess knight to a glowing orb surrounded by a neural networkBeginner

A short history of artificial intelligence, from Turing to GPT-6

Seventy-six years in ten chapters: the ideas, the winters, the breakthroughs and the people behind today's AI. To understand why now, and what may come next.

12 min→
Word tiles flowing into a glowing lens and branching into probability pathsBeginner

How an LLM really works

Tokens, next-word prediction, attention, three-stage training. What happens when you write to ChatGPT or Claude, explained without formulas but without wrong shortcuts.

14 min→
A long paper scroll passing through a glowing window, faded in the middleBeginner

Context and memory, why AI "forgets"

The context window is everything the model sees at once. How big it is, why long conversations degrade, and how memory, projects and RAG work.

11 min→
A magnifying glass reveals a bridge is only a mirage of lightBeginner

Hallucinations, why AI makes things up and how to protect yourself

Non-existent rulings, wrong numbers, quotes never said. Where hallucinations come from, when they are most likely, and a six-step method to avoid being fooled.

10 min→
A figure with a lantern walking through a branching mazeIntermediate

Reasoning models, when to make them think

Reasoning models "think" before answering. How they work, what effort levels are, what they cost in time and money, and when they are really worth it.

10 min→
A glowing hub connected to folders, calendars and emails moving on their ownIntermediate

Agents, MCP and Skills, AI that acts

From the chatbot that answers to the agent that works for hours. What tools, MCP, Skills and harnesses are, what agents can really do today and how to use them safely.

13 min→
A cloud of random dots condensing into a framed landscapeBeginner

Generative images and video, how they work and how to use them

From noise to image. How image and video generators work, which are best according to Arena, how to write a good visual prompt and what the law says about synthetic content.

11 min→
A bookshelf where only three books glow, linked to a speech bubbleAdvanced

RAG and embeddings: making AI answer from your documents

How "meaning-based" search works, what embeddings and vector databases are, how to build an assistant that answers from company documents citing sources, and the mistakes that make it unreliable.

13 min→

Try it now

At the heart of every chatbot is a game of probabilities.

Pick the next word yourself or let the model generate. Raise the temperature: unlikely choices become possible. That is how, at huge scale, every answer is born.

LLM · demo

How an LLM thinks

The model does not "know" the sentence: at each step it scores every possible next word and picks one.

Pick the next word yourself

The sentence as tokens (split and IDs are illustrative)

02

Use

Practical methods and examples to get better results, now.

A hand writing on a card that sends a beam of light to a targetBeginner

Prompting, the six-move method

How to write instructions that produce useful results first time. The six-move method, the techniques that really work in 2026 and ten ready-made prompts for work.

15 min→
A magnifying glass over documents linked by threads and golden pinsBeginner

Researching with AI without being fooled

Web search, Deep Research, Perplexity, Gemini Notebook. Which to use for which question, how to write the request, how to check sources in five minutes.

10 min→
A stack of documents passing through a lens and becoming a neat tableBeginner

Documents, PDFs and Excel with AI

Summarising contracts, extracting data from invoices, analysing financial statements, writing formulas and charts. Practical methods to work on documents without losing accuracy.

11 min→
A conveyor of invoices passing a glowing gate to an approval stampIntermediate

Automating with AI, from repetitive work to flows that run themselves

How to design a useful, safe automation with n8n, Zapier or assistants' scheduled tasks. Examples for offices and firms, real costs and mistakes to avoid.

12 min→
Building blocks forming a browser windowIntermediate

Building sites and apps with AI

From "vibe coding" to engineering with agents. Which tools to use, how to describe what you want, how to publish, and the security rules never to skip.

12 min→
A student at a desk under a lamp, with flashcards floatingBeginner

Studying with AI without switching off your brain

Socratic tutor, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps and audio overviews: how to use ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Notebook to learn more and faster, while avoiding the shortcut trap.

11 min→
A smart speaker switched on next to a smartphoneBeginner

Voice, audio and music with AI

Transcribing meetings, giving a text a voice, dubbing a video, building an agent that answers the phone, composing a soundtrack. Tools, methods and the consent rules not to forget.

10 min→
A megaphone emitting post and carousel shapes that converge into one lightBeginner

AI for marketing and social media, without sounding like a robot

Content calendars, posts, carousels, short videos, newsletters and ads: how to use AI to communicate more and better while keeping your own voice, and what the law requires you to disclose.

11 min→
A website window with a small glowing chat bubble answering a visitorIntermediate

An AI chatbot for your website: how to do it right

What it takes to put an assistant on your site that genuinely answers customers: content, model, costs, key security, transparency duties and privacy. Using Lumen's chatbot as the example.

12 min→
A tidy desk with an envelope, calendar and clock lit by a lampBeginner

Email, meetings and calendar: AI in everyday work

The habits that save an hour a day: a tidy inbox, faster replies, meetings that produce decisions, better-planned days. With ready-to-use prompts.

10 min→

Job hunting with AI: CVs, cover letters and interviews

How to use artificial intelligence to tailor your CV to each job ad, write cover letters that do not sound generated, prepare for interviews and understand how companies use AI to screen candidates. With ready-made prompts.

10 min→

Presentations and slides with AI

From outline to finished deck in half an hour: how to choose the right tool (Gamma, Claude, ChatGPT, Canva, PowerPoint and Google Slides), write a good brief, fix charts and numbers, and avoid "AI-looking" slides.

9 min→
03

Decide

Choosing models and plans, following the rules, protecting data.

A balance with a glowing orb on one side and coins on the otherBeginner

How to choose a model and a plan

Reading benchmarks and rankings without being fooled, knowing when a subscription or the API makes sense, and choosing by profile. With October 2026 prices.

12 min→
A folder of documents protected by a dome of light and a padlockBeginner

Privacy and security, what never to upload

Where the data you give AI ends up, how to set up assistants to protect it, what changes between personal and business plans, and the new risks: prompt injection, deepfakes, scams.

11 min→
Scales of justice with a microchip and a human figure, ringed by starsIntermediate

The AI Act and Italy's Law 132/2025, what businesses and professionals must do

The EU AI regulation after the 2026 amendments and Italy's first national AI law. Updated timeline, duties for organisations that use AI, and a six-point checklist.

13 min→
An office desk and three stepping stones toward a rising sunIntermediate

AI for professional firms and SMEs, a 90-day plan

Ten concrete uses that really save time, how to calculate the return, a three-phase adoption plan and the mistakes I see most often in small organisations.

13 min→
A laptop inside a house-shaped shield, with a glowing coreAdvanced

Local AI: open models on your own computer

When it makes sense to run a model on your own computer or company servers, what hardware you need, which models to pick in 2026, and how to start in ten minutes with LM Studio or Ollama.

12 min→
A ledger, a calculator and invoices under a glowing checkmarkIntermediate

AI for tax and accounting: what it can really do

E-invoices, bookkeeping entries, reconciliations, regulatory research, client communications: where AI saves hours for accountants, finance teams and freelancers, and where a professional's judgement is always needed.

12 min→
A mask held before a face, revealed by a beam of lightBeginner

Deepfakes and AI scams: how to spot them and protect yourself

Cloned voices, fake executives on video, fake investments with famous faces, flawless phishing. How 2026 scams work, the signals to notice and the defences for families, professionals and companies.

10 min→

Context

Seventy-six years in eleven steps.

  1. 1950
    The imitation game

    Alan Turing asks whether machines can think and proposes a test: if you cannot tell its answers from a person's, the machine "thinks".

  2. 1956
    The name is born

    At the Dartmouth workshop John McCarthy coins "artificial intelligence". Decades of hype and "winters" follow.

  3. 1997
    Deep Blue beats Kasparov

    Brute force and hand-written rules: very narrow intelligence, no general learning.

  4. 2012
    Deep learning breakthrough

    AlexNet wins ImageNet with a GPU-trained neural network. Deep networks become the main road.

  5. 2016
    AlphaGo

    DeepMind beats Go champion Lee Sedol with moves no human had foreseen.

  6. 2017
    The Transformer

    Eight Google researchers publish "Attention Is All You Need". It is the architecture behind every LLM today.

  7. 2020
    GPT-3 and AlphaFold 2

    A language model writing convincing text and a model predicting protein shapes: AI enters science.

  8. 2022
    ChatGPT

    On 30 November OpenAI opens ChatGPT to the public: 100 million users in two months. Image generators explode too.

  9. 2024
    Reasoning and rules

    Models that think before answering arrive. The AI Act enters into force. Nobels to Hinton and Hopfield (physics) and Hassabis and Jumper (chemistry).

  10. 2025
    The year of agents

    Agents using computers and browsers, the MCP standard, coding agents. Italy passes Law 132/2025, its first national AI law.

  11. 2026
    Always-on agents

    GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon. Answers become interfaces, agents work for hours. EU transparency duties kick in.