Author: Lenka Vojtechova

ChatGPT Personal Finance is the biggest expansion of ChatGPT’s role in your daily life since memory, and it’s also the most polarizing. OpenAI launched the Personal Finance preview on May 15, 2026, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the United States only. Plaid powers the bank connections, with support for more than 12,000 banks, brokerages, and […]

How much energy does ChatGPT use? A single query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, roughly what an oven draws in a little over one second. Independent analysis by Epoch AI puts a typical GPT-4o query near 0.3 Wh, about the same as one Google search. The catch is […]

Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max launched on May 20, 2026 at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou, and the numbers are loud. It scored 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at launch (good for #5 that week, currently sitting top 10 of 151 measured models), the highest-ranked Chinese AI model on that leaderboard to date. It carries […]

Sam Altman is (1) the CEO of OpenAI, (2) the executive who steered the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, (3) the former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, (4) a billionaire venture investor worth an estimated $2 to $3.3 billion as of May 2026, and (5) one of the most influential people in artificial […]

The smart glasses race just got real. Google and Samsung unveiled their Android XR glasses at Google I/O 2026 on May 19, with a confirmed Fall 2026 ship date, partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and Gemini AI built into every interaction. Apple’s answer, code-named N50, is still roughly a year away, with Bloomberg’s […]

On May 6, 2026, Mindtrip launched the first all-in-one agentic AI flight booking experience, where you describe a trip in plain language, the AI compares fares across airlines, and you check out with PayPal inside the same chat. That single launch tells you everything about where travel apps went in 2026: away from form fields, […]

On July 23, 2026, Gemini Spark stopped being a luxury purchase. Google’s 24/7 agent launched at I/O on May 19, 2026 locked behind the $99.99/month Google AI Ultra tier. It now reaches Google AI Pro subscribers at $19.99/month, within pennies of what Claude Cowork costs on Claude Pro. Anthropic shipped Cowork in general availability back […]

Three things make EcoGPT different from every other AI chatbot you have tried: it routes most queries through Groq’s LPU infrastructure (claimed up to 10× more energy-efficient than GPUs), it funds tree planting at a rate of 100 messages per tree, and it is built by a NYC-based Public Benefit Company rather than a Big […]

NotebookLM pricing in 2026 spans six SKUs tied to Google AI subscriptions: Standard at $0/month, Plus at $4.99/month via Google AI Plus, Pro at $19.99/month via Google AI Pro, Ultra at $99.99 or $199.99/month via the two Google AI Ultra tiers, Workspace Business Standard at $14/user/month, and NotebookLM Enterprise from roughly $9/license/month. NotebookLM, now called […]

Google now sells Gemini four different ways, and the cheapest entry point just got cheaper again. Gemini 3.6 Flash landed on July 21, 2026 at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, a 17% output price cut against the 3.5 Flash it replaces. On the consumer side the ladder now runs […]