The best free AI courses and certificates for upskilling in 2026 - and I've tried them all

I've worked with AI for decades and have a master's degree in education. Here are the top free AI courses online that I recommend - and why.
Naples Daily News

17 pythons. $600. Hunter wins Florida elimination challenge for December

Python hunter Kevin Pavlidis won for the third time in 2025. The competition is sponsored by the South Florida Water ...
Fox News

Trump administration appeals ruling restoring $2.7B in federal funding to Harvard

Lawyers for the Trump administration said Friday they are appealing a judge’s order to restore $2.7 billion in frozen federal research funding to Harvard University, the latest twist in a monthslong, ...
The Hill

Trump administration appealing Harvard funding ruling

The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that declared the rescission of $2.6 billion in federal funds from Harvard University was unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Allison ...
The New York Times

Harvard Secretly Investigates Students Over Larry Summers Video on Epstein

The students face discipline for recording Mr. Summers, the former Harvard president, discussing his ties to Jeffrey Epstein in a Harvard class. By Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Arsenault Harvard ...
Harvard Medical School

Update on President Garber

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I wrote in August 2024 to let you know that Alan Garber, then serving as Harvard’s interim president, would assume the title of president and lead the University ...
Reuters

Harvard professor arrested by US immigration agents after firing pellet gun near synagogue

Carlos Portugal Gouvea arrested after US revokes visa Trump administration calls incident 'anti-Semitic', contrary to local authorities' findings Gouvea, a Brazilian, agrees to leave United States ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Departments Brace for Teaching Fellow Shortage After Ph.D. Cuts

Harvard’s deep cuts to Ph.D. admissions are on track to leave undergraduate courses short of teaching fellows within two years, a looming squeeze already pushing departments to prepare contingency ...
The Boston Globe

‘Ashamed’: Larry Summers to step back from public commitments amid criticism over Epstein ties

Former Harvard University president Larry Summers said Monday that he would step back from his public commitments “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me” amid ...
GitHub

SSL certificate verification paths not configured correctly when Python is installed via uv (in Red Hat UBI8 base image)

When using uv to install and run Python inside a Red Hat UBI8-based container, the resulting Python environment does not appear to have correct SSL verification paths configured. Standard HTTPS ...
Purdue University

Google IT Automation with Python Certificate

This advanced version of the Google IT Support certificate teaches learners how to automate IT tasks using Python, Git and IT tools. The program includes hands-on exercises for scripting, system ...