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AI Search and Deep Research Tools Compared: Perplexity vs ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude vs Grok vs Google in 2026

Update, July 2026: Grok 4.5 is now publicly available, released on July 8, 2026. See our Grok 4.5 breakdown, and our Grok 4.3 review for the previous generation. Claude figures below now reflect Claude Opus 5, which shipped on July 24, 2026. A single Perplexity Deep Research query now runs dozens of searches, reads hundreds […]

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Claude Code Login Issue: How to Fix the “Can’t Paste Authentication Code” Error on macOS and Windows

If you just ran claude login, got your authentication code from the browser, and your terminal silently refuses to paste it, you are not doing anything wrong. This was a known regression that started in Claude Code v2.1.105 and persisted through v2.1.107, confirmed by Anthropic’s own changelog and dozens of open bug reports on GitHub. […]