On April 23, 2026, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5, its most capable model to date and the first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5. The release brings state-of-the-art scores on Terminal-Bench 2.0, OSWorld, and GDPval, a much stronger agentic coding profile in Codex, a new Pro tier, and a pricing step up that reflects the jump in […]

Update — May 2, 2026: Read our new Grok 4.3 review. A single Perplexity Deep Research query now runs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, and delivers a cited report in 2 to 4 minutes. On the heavier end, ChatGPT Deep Research can browse the web for up to 30 minutes and pull from […]

On April 16, 2026, OpenAI pushed the biggest update yet to its Codex Mac app and the headline is simple, Codex can now take control of your Mac. The feature is called codex mac computer use, and it lets Codex see your screen, move its own cursor, click, and type across any macOS app you […]

Three mysterious image models appeared on LM Arena and vanished within hours. Here’s everything leaked about OpenAI’s GPT Image 2, including capabilities, benchmarks, and expected release date.

Update — May 2, 2026: Read our new Grok 4.3 review. ChatGPT crossed 900 million weekly active users in early 2026, but most of them are paying $20 a month for a single model when the same cash could buy access to GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok 4.3 (released April 30, […]

Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio leaks point to 80 GPU cores, 256GB memory, and a WWDC 2026 reveal. Full breakdown of specs, price, date, and local AI power.

Update, June 10, 2026: The Grok 5 picture sharpened in late May and June. xAI shipped Grok Voice (June 4), pushed Grok Imagine Video 1.5 to the top of the image-to-video leaderboard, and Elon Musk confirmed that a new 1.5-trillion-parameter coding model, Grok V9-Medium, finished training. None of that is Grok 5 itself, and the […]

Update, April 23, 2026: The “Spud” mystery is solved. OpenAI shipped the model on April 23, 2026 and branded it GPT-5.5, not GPT-6. It launched in three variants (standard, GPT-5.5 Thinking, GPT-5.5 Pro) and hit 88.7% on SWE-bench Verified, 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and an Intelligence Index of 59 (second only to Grok 5). OpenAI […]

The five open-source AI models worth running on an M5 Mac in April 2026 are Mistral 7B (16 GB), Qwen 3.5 9B (24 GB), DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B (24 GB), Gemma 4 26B-A4B (32 GB), and Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B (32 GB+). Minimum unified memory is 16 GB, the sweet spot is 24 GB, and […]

On April 16, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model to date. The update brings a 13% lift on coding benchmarks, 3x more production tasks resolved, high-resolution vision support up to 3.75 megapixels, and a new tokenizer. Pricing stays the same as Opus 4.6 at $5/$25 per million tokens. Claude […]