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September 16, 2026News

Fugu Ultra: The AI That Conducts Other AI Models

Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra v2 isn't a new flagship model — it's a system that routes tasks to other AI models, and it beats much bigger names on one benchmark doing it.

September 14, 2026News

Apple Watch Is Listening: What Siri Recap Actually Records

The Apple Watch Series 12 listens in on conversations and summarizes them — without recording any audio, and with solid encryption. For now, you can only use it outside the EU.

September 12, 2026News

Follow-up: Flowise Is Dead, OpenRouter Enters the EU

Three articles from this blog got an update — one of them an obituary. Flowise is history, MiniMax is getting pricier, and OpenRouter is building a European door.

September 11, 2026News

Claude Fable 5.1: Better Numbers, Still Not Free

Fable 5.1 doubles a key coding benchmark and makes caching notably cheaper. The people who actually benefit are mostly the ones already paying.

September 7, 2026News

GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI's Powerful New Model, but Not Free

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's newest and most capable model: it can use software like a human would, but it costs real money and carries a serious new security risk.

September 2, 2026News

Nvidia Wants to Buy Hugging Face: What It Means for Open AI

Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face for roughly $13 billion. The internet's biggest hub for open AI models would suddenly belong to a chip company.

August 28, 2026News

Ox Alpha Unmasked: GLM-5.3-Flash Trained Without Nvidia

A mystery AI model quietly dominated the leaderboards for weeks. Now we know who built it, and how they pulled it off.

August 26, 2026News

ChatGPT for Teens: Control Without a Real ID Check

Since August 18, ChatGPT for 13- to 17-year-olds runs in a protected mode by default. Age is estimated, not verified — with all the weaknesses that implies.

August 24, 2026News

Gemini Spark: What Google's AI Agent Does — And Doesn't

Google's AI agent Gemini Spark sorts your inbox, books appointments and works your browser — except if you live in the EU. What it does, what it doesn't, and why Europe is missing.

August 19, 2026News

ChatGPT Free: No More Message Limit

OpenAI gives free users unlimited text chats with its new GPT-5.6 Luna model. Images and file uploads, though, remain limited.

August 14, 2026News

Qwen3.8-Max: Alibaba's Open Giant Comes With a Catch

Alibaba celebrates Qwen3.8-Max as an open giant model. The download really is free — just not quite what the announcement promised.

August 10, 2026News

Claude Code Auto Mode: The AI Decides for Itself Now

Claude Code will stop asking permission for every command starting August 14 — a classifier handles the safety check instead. The feature isn't new; the default setting is. A look at the numbers, the limits, and whether that trust is earned.

August 7, 2026News

Your Phone Is Thinking Now – No Internet Needed

On-device AI finally works in everyday phones: Apple's chip and Qualcomm's Snapdragon process AI requests locally. Here's what's really behind it – no hype.

August 3, 2026News

ChatGPT Health: Why Europe Is Left Out for Now

ChatGPT gets its own health feature with Apple Health integration and a medical records dashboard – but only in the US so far. Here's why Europe is excluded.

July 31, 2026News

Claude Opus 5: Anthropic's New Flagship Model Explained

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5 — its strongest model yet, with a new effort dial, but available only to paying Pro and Max subscribers.

July 29, 2026News

FLUX 3: A German AI Model for Image, Video and Sound

FLUX 3 from German company Black Forest Labs generates images, videos with sound, and robot actions from a single model — but for now only through a waitlist and with no announced price.

July 24, 2026News

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Google's New Free Default Model

Gemini 3.6 Flash is here – more efficient than its predecessor, free to use in the Gemini app and AI Studio, and already your new default model.

July 22, 2026News

Kimi K3: China's Open Giant AI That's Sold Out

A new Chinese model sparks such a rush that its maker shuts the door. We explain what Kimi K3 can do, how to get in anyway — and whether switching is worth it.

July 20, 2026News

Talking to AI Instead of Typing — Any Good?

Talk instead of type: GPT-Live and Gemini Live make chatting with AI surprisingly natural. What's free, where it stumbles — and who it's worth it for.

July 15, 2026News

Claude for Teachers: Free AI Access for US Schools

Anthropic is giving verified US teachers free access to Claude — with its own privacy package built for the classroom. What's in it, and why the rest of the world is still left out.

July 6, 2026News

Claude Fable 5 Is Back – Just Not for Free

After three weeks offline, Claude Fable 5 is back worldwide with a new safety filter — but free-tier users still get none of it.

June 29, 2026News

GPT-5.6: Three New AI Models — and When You'll Get Them

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 lineup brings three models: Sol for top performance, Terra for balance, Luna for speed. Most ChatGPT users can't try them yet — but the rollout is coming in weeks.

June 22, 2026News

SpaceX Buys Cursor: $60 Billion for an AI Code Editor

Elon Musk's rocket company is taking over AI coding assistant Cursor — the largest venture-backed startup acquisition in history. Here's what that means for you.

June 18, 2026News

Google Kills Gemini CLI — the Replacement Is a Step Back

Gemini CLI was a beloved open-source AI tool with over 100,000 GitHub stars — now Google is pulling the plug. The replacement, Antigravity, has worse quotas and no open code.

June 12, 2026News

Claude Fable 5: Anthropic's Most Powerful Model Goes Public

Fable 5 is Anthropic's most powerful publicly available model. Free for paid users through June 22 — after that, usage credits apply.

June 10, 2026News

Siri Finally Gets Smart: Apple’s New AI Powered by Gemini

At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled a Gemini-powered Siri that finally works like a real AI assistant. Here’s what changed and what you can try right now.

June 8, 2026News

ChatGPT Dreaming: How the New Memory System Works

OpenAI rebuilt ChatGPT's memory from the ground up. Dreaming V3 reads your old conversations and builds a profile of you automatically — no setup required, free tier rollout underway.

June 4, 2026News

Microsoft Is Building Its Own AI Model

At Build 2026 Microsoft unveiled seven in-house AI models and began moving away from OpenAI. What's behind MAI-Thinking-1 — and what does it mean for you?

May 31, 2026News

ChatGPT Gets Ads — What That Means Now

ChatGPT now shows ads — but only for free users and Go subscribers. What you'll see, what happens to your data, and what options you have.

May 28, 2026News

iOS 27: Choose your AI on iPhone – Android users shrug

Apple is breaking ChatGPT's exclusivity in iOS 27. A genuine improvement for iPhone users — and a feature Android has had all along.

May 27, 2026News

AI Cracks an 80-Year-Old Math Problem

On May 20, 2026, an OpenAI model autonomously solved a major open math problem for the first time. Here's what happened, what it means, and where AI still hits its limits.

May 26, 2026News

What the Pope thinks about AI — and why it matters

Magnifica Humanitas: The Pope writes about AI. No hype, no bashing — just some points that actually land.

May 25, 2026News

Spotting AI Images: OpenAI Now Uses Watermarks

Since May 2026, all images from ChatGPT carry a hidden watermark. Anyone can check — but how reliable is it really?