投稿者: Lenka Vojtechova

On May 13, 2026, Amazon retired the standalone Rufus chatbot and replaced it with Alexa for Shopping, a new agentic AI assistant built straight into the main Amazon search bar. Rufus had helped over 300 million customers in 2025 research and compare products, so this is not a quiet tweak. The separate Rufus chat window is gone, and its recommendations and product expertise now live inside a single, more capable assistant. If you opened the Amazon app recently and noticed Rufus missing, you did not lose anything. This guide explains exactly what happened to Rufus, what Alexa for Shopping can do, how to access it for free, and whether the […]

A Chinese AI lab just released a free model that scores 80.8 on SWE-Bench Verified and 75.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, putting it in the same league as GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 on real coding work. It is called Nex-N2-Pro, it dropped on June 2, 2026, and it costs nothing to download. The model comes from Nex AGI, ships under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, and is built specifically for agentic tasks like writing code, calling tools, and running long, multi-step workflows on its own. This is one of the clearest signs yet that open-source AI has caught up with the frontier on the tasks developers actually care about. In […]

Update — June 8, 2026: Refreshed pricing, rollout status, and benchmarks for June. Grok 4.3 has now reached standard SuperGrok and X Premium+ seats, not just the $300 Heavy tier. For the deep dive, read our Grok 4.3 review. ChatGPT now runs on GPT-5.5, launched on April 23, 2026, while Grok is powered by Grok 4.3 (released April 30, 2026), the successor to Grok 4.20 from xAI. Both chatbots have evolved significantly over the past year, and picking between them is no longer as simple as “ChatGPT is the default.” Grok has grown from 1.9% US market share to 17.8% in just 12 months, while ChatGPT still dominates with over […]

An AI shopping assistant is the reason you can now type “find me a warm waterproof jacket under $120 with good reviews” into a chat box and get a real shortlist back in seconds. In 2026 these tools moved from novelty to mainstream, with traffic to retail sites from generative AI up 693% over the 2025 holiday season according to Adobe Analytics, and the biggest one, Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping, already used by over 250 million people. This guide explains what an AI shopping assistant actually is, what it does, how it differs from the old chatbots stuck on store websites, and which ones you can use today. You will […]

Apple just reset its entire AI strategy at WWDC 2026. In a keynote on June 8, the company rebranded Siri as Siri AI, built it on a new generation of Apple Foundation Models developed with Google Gemini, shipped iOS 27 and macOS 27 “Golden Gate,” and, in the move that matters most for you, opened a new Extensions framework that lets you set Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok as the default AI across the system. It was also Tim Cook’s final keynote as CEO before John Ternus takes over on September 1, capping it as the biggest AI shift in Apple’s history. The headlines have focused on Siri and the […]

Qwen pricing splits into two very different paths, and most people only need the free one. The Qwen Chat app is completely free with no subscription, while developers pay per token through the API, where rates run from $0.05 per million input tokens on the cheapest model up to $3.75 per million output tokens on the flagship Qwen3.7-Max. That roughly 75x spread between the cheapest and the flagship rate is the single most important thing to understand before you choose a model. This guide breaks down every part of Qwen pricing for 2026, including the free Qwen Chat app, the pay-as-you-go API rates for each model, the input-size tiers that […]

Yes, Siri is AI, but a limited kind. Since it launched on the iPhone 4S in October 2011, Siri has run on narrow AI. That means speech recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning tuned for specific tasks like setting timers, sending texts, and answering quick factual questions. It does not reason, hold a flowing conversation, or write you an essay the way ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini do. So when you say “Hey Siri,” you are talking to real artificial intelligence, just an older and narrower version of it. That definition just changed in a big way. At WWDC on June 8, 2026, Apple unveiled Siri AI, an entirely new […]

Midjourney pricing in 2026 splits into four plans, Basic at $10/month, Standard at $30/month, Pro at $60/month, and Mega at $120/month, with a 20% discount if you pay annually. There is no free trial, so the cheapest way in is the $10 Basic plan, or $8/month when billed yearly. Every tier buys you a fixed block of fast GPU time rather than a set number of images, which is the single most misunderstood part of how Midjourney charges. This guide breaks down each plan, what you actually get for the money, and how Midjourney’s GPU-hour system turns into a real cost per image. You will see the full comparison table, […]

Five AI shopping assistants now decide how millions of people find and buy products online: ChatGPT, Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus), Perplexity, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Over the 2025 holiday season, traffic from AI platforms to retail sites grew nearly 700%, and those shoppers converted at 31% higher rates than visitors from regular search, according to Adobe Analytics. The race to be the assistant you ask “what should I buy” is now one of the biggest fights in consumer tech. This guide compares the five consumer AI shopping assistants you can actually use today, what each one does well, how their checkout works, and which is the best […]

MiniMax pricing spans three separate products under one brand, and that is exactly why it confuses people. The Hailuo AI video generator runs from a free tier up to $199.99/month, the MiniMax API charges per token from as little as $0.15 per million on M2.5, and the developer Token Plan starts at $10/month. Whichever one you came for, the numbers below are current as of June 2026. The naming is the first hurdle. Hailuo AI is MiniMax’s consumer video app, MiniMax is the company and its API brand, and searches like “hailuo minimax pricing” mix the two together. This guide separates all three so you can find your exact plan, […]