Claude Opus 4.8 takes the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4, beating GPT-5.5. Full benchmarks, pricing, and what’s new.

Anthropic does not offer a public, individually-redeemable student discount on Claude Pro in 2026. There is no .edu signup form, no promo code at checkout, and no “Education” tab inside claude.ai. Verified students get Claude cheaper through four legitimate routes: Claude for Education (free Pro at partner universities), the Claude Campus Program (Ambassadors and Builder […]

Dario Amodei is (1) the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude. (2) a former Vice President of Research at OpenAI who led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3. (3) a Princeton-trained biophysicist with a PhD in neural-circuit electrophysiology. (4) a $7 billion billionaire as of February 2026 per Forbes. (5) the […]

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. For a chatbot built specifically around lighter, […]

Only two flagship AI Pro tiers currently offer a public free trial in May 2026: Google AI Pro (30 days, card required, renews at $19.99/month) and Microsoft Copilot Pro (1 month, card required, renews at $20/month). Cursor quietly removed its Pro trial earlier in 2026, ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro have never offered a public […]

NotebookLM is Google’s free AI research tool, and you use it in six steps. Sign in, create a notebook, and upload up to 50 sources. Then ask questions, check the inline citations, and open the Studio panel to generate study guides, an audio podcast, or a narrated video. Unlike a normal chatbot, NotebookLM grounds every […]

For the first time since ChatGPT launched, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in US business adoption. Ramp’s April 2026 AI Index, published on May 13, puts Anthropic at 34.4% of tracked enterprise spending versus OpenAI at 32.3%. Anthropic added 3.8 percentage points in a single month while OpenAI fell 2.9. A year ago, OpenAI sat near […]

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a typical chatbot reply. The scary viral ~500 mL “per email” number comes from also counting the electricity supply chain, which is why estimates span more […]

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 […]