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GLM 5.3 Flash: Z.ai Ships Ox Alpha as a 320B Open Model
Z.ai released GLM 5.3 Flash on August 26, 2026, and confirmed it is the stealth model that had been running on OpenRouter as Ox Alpha. It is a 320B model with 18B…
Are AI Companies Destroying Books? What the Court Files Actually Show
Court documents unsealed in January 2026 show Anthropic bought millions of used print books, cut off the spines, scanned the pages and threw the originals away. In…
GLM 5.3: What Z.ai Shipped, and the Weights It Held Back
Update, August 26, 2026: the two-week deadline has passed and GLM 5.3’s weights are still not out. Z.ai released a different model instead, the 320B multimodal GLM…
Gemini 3.7 Flash: Pricing, Benchmarks and the Catch Google Buried
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, just 23 days after Gemini 3.6 Flash. Coding scores jumped hard and the price halved to $0.75 per million input…
AI Models Discontinued in 2026: The Running List
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google retired dozens of AI models in 2026, and more shutdowns land every month. Here is the running list of what is already gone, what…
Grok 4.6: What's New, Benchmarks and Pricing
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on 12 August 2026. It scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ties GPT-5.6 Sol, and costs 60 percent less than the…
GPT-5.6-Cyber: OpenAI’s Hacking Model, and Why You Cannot Use It
OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber on August 10, 2026, a model trained to find zero-days and build exploit chains, tuned to refuse far less than the ChatGPT you use…
What Is Grok Bot? SpaceXAI’s AI Agent App for Mac and iPhone
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot on 11 August 2026, and it is not a chatbot. Each account gets a persistent cloud computer that AI agents use to sign into your apps with…
Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code: Meta’s Coding Agent for Mac
Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.2 on 5 August 2026 alongside Muse Code, its first terminal coding agent, and the launch charts tell a more honest story than the headlines…
Apple Sues OpenAI: What It Means for Siri and Your iPhone
On Monday 3 August 2026, Apple asked a federal judge to bar OpenAI and two former Apple employees from accessing, using or disclosing its confidential information…
AI Models Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat Their Own Test
On July 21, 2026, OpenAI confirmed something no AI lab has ever had to admit before. Two of its own models broke out of a sealed test environment, discovered a…
Claude Opus 5 Review: Pricing, Benchmarks, and the New Effort Setting
Claude Opus 5 landed on July 24, 2026 with close to Claude Fable 5 intelligence at Opus speed and cost, for roughly half the price of Fable 5. Anthropic moved it to…
Sakana AI’s Fugu-Ultra v1.1 Is Here: Better Benchmarks, Same Price
Sakana AI has released Fugu-Ultra v1.1, an upgrade to its frontier orchestration model that the lab says gains up to 7.9 points over v1.0 across every benchmark it…
Gemini 3.6 Flash Is Here: Pricing, Benchmarks and What Changed
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash on July 21, 2026, and the headline number is not a benchmark. It is the price. Output tokens dropped to $7.50 per million, down…
Is Codex Wearing Out Your Mac’s SSD? The Codex SSD Bug Explained
One developer measured roughly 37 TB written to their SSD in just 21 days of running OpenAI’s Codex, which extrapolates to about 640 TB per year. That is a problem…
Qwen 3.8: Alibaba’s 2.4T Model Tested Against the Fable 5 Claim
Qwen 3.8 is no longer a preview with a marketing claim attached to it. Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max generally available on August 3, 2026, and this time the model…
NotebookLM Is Now Gemini Notebook: What Changed and What Stayed the Same
On July 16, 2026, Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding its popular research tool into the wider Gemini brand. If you woke up to a new blue-purple…
Claude for Teachers: Anthropic’s Free AI for Educators Explained
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on July 14, 2026, giving verified US K-12 educators free access to premium Claude built for the classroom. The offer is free…
Gemini 3.5 Pro Release Date: What We Know (+ Flash Review)
Google split Gemini 3.5 into two launches, and only one has actually arrived. Gemini 3.5 Flash went live on May 19, 2026 at Google I/O 2026 and did something Google…
Apple Intelligence Is Coming to China, Powered by Alibaba’s Qwen
On July 15, 2026, China’s Cyberspace Administration approved Apple Intelligence for the country, and the model doing the heavy lifting is not ChatGPT. It is…
Kimi K3: Moonshot’s 2.8T Open-Weight Model Explained, Specs, Pricing and Benchmarks
Moonshot AI published the full Kimi K3 weights on July 27, 2026, eleven days after the model went live in the Kimi app. The Hugging Face repository carries 96…
What Is ChatGPT Work? OpenAI’s New Agent Mode Explained
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026, and it turns ChatGPT from a chat window into an agent that finishes real projects on its own. Instead of answering a…
Gemini Omni Flash: Google’s Talk-to-Edit AI Video Model Explained
Gemini Omni Flash lets you make and edit short videos by talking to them, and it costs just $0.10 per second of generated footage. That works out to roughly $1 for…
ChatGPT Live: OpenAI’s New GPT-Live Voice Model Explained
OpenAI launched GPT-Live, the new ChatGPT Live voice, on July 8, 2026, and it quietly replaced the Advanced Voice Mode you have been using for the past two years…
ChatGPT 5.6 Is Live: Sol, Terra, and Luna Explained
GPT-5.6 has been generally available since July 9, 2026, the day OpenAI ended a two-week lockdown that had limited the model to roughly 20 US-government-vetted…
Muse Spark 1.1: Meta’s Strongest Coding and Agentic AI Yet
Muse Spark 1.1 landed on July 9, 2026, and Meta is calling it its strongest model yet for real-world coding and agentic work. The upgrade comes from Meta…
Is ChatGPT Free? What You Get on the Free Plan in 2026
Yes, ChatGPT is free, and the August 2026 overhaul that made the free plan dramatically better has fully landed. Free and Go accounts now get unlimited everyday…
Grok 4.5 Released: Specs, Benchmarks, Pricing, and Everything New
On July 8, 2026, xAI released Grok 4.5, its first model built specifically for coding and agentic work. This is not a general capability upgrade. It is a deliberate…
Grok 5: Release Date & All We Know So Far
Update, September 23, 2026: Grok 5 is still not out. Since this guide first ran, SpaceXAI has shipped Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026 and Grok 4.7 on September 21…
Is Perplexity AI Free? What You Get on the Free Plan in 2026
Yes, Perplexity AI is free. You can use it at perplexity.ai with no credit card and no account needed for basic searches, and Perplexity runs a permanent free tier…
