タグ: chatGPT

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, and DeepSeek countered with V4 Pro and V4 Flash the very next day. The two flagships now sit a few benchmark points apart on coding and reasoning, but the cost gap is enormous: DeepSeek V4 Flash output tokens cost $0.28 per million versus GPT-5.5 at $30, more than 100 times cheaper. That single number reshapes the entire DeepSeek vs ChatGPT debate. This guide compares the current 2026 flagships head to head across performance, pricing, features, privacy, and real-world use cases. You’ll see the canonical benchmark numbers, monthly cost scenarios at different scales, the privacy and censorship reality of each platform, and a clear […]

An AI just hacked its way across 4 countries and cloned itself onto each one from a single prompt. Here’s what Palisade’s May 2026 study really proved.

Update — May 12, 2026: The certificate revocation went live on schedule on May 8, 2026. If your ChatGPT, Codex, Codex CLI, or Atlas Mac app now refuses to open and shows a “damaged” or “cannot be verified” warning, this guide still works; the fastest fix is a fresh download from chatgpt.com/download, since the in-app updater is no longer reachable from any build signed with the revoked certificate. On May 8, 2026, OpenAI revoked the macOS code-signing certificate it had used to sign ChatGPT, Codex, Codex CLI, and Atlas through April 2026. From that day on, macOS Gatekeeper refuses to launch any version still signed with the old certificate, so […]

ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company founded on December 11, 2015 by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman and a small group of researchers. ChatGPT itself was built by OpenAI’s research team and launched publicly on November 30, 2022. It reached 1 million users in 5 days and 100 million monthly users in 2 months, the fastest consumer product adoption in history at that point. The short answer is “OpenAI built it,” but the longer answer is more interesting. ChatGPT did not appear out of nowhere. It sat on top of a decade of work, a controversial Elon Musk exit, […]

On May 5, 2026, Subquadratic launched SubQ, the first frontier LLM built on a fully subquadratic sparse-attention architecture, with a 12 million token context window and bold cost claims.

The number one reason ChatGPT cancellations “don’t work” has nothing to do with OpenAI’s website. It’s that ChatGPT runs on three separate billing systems, and most people try to cancel in the wrong one. If you signed up on iPhone, Apple bills you. If you signed up on Android, Google bills you. If you signed up on chatgpt.com, OpenAI bills you. Cancel in the wrong place and your subscription keeps charging, whether it’s Plus at $20/month or Pro at $200/month. This guide covers every cancellation path that exists in 2026, across every paid tier. The same iPhone, Android, and web steps work for Plus, Pro, and Go, since they all […]

The standard cost of a major AI assistant in 2026 is $20 per month. That’s the price of ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Google AI Pro ($19.99), and Perplexity Pro. Underneath sits a budget tier starting at $7.99 (Google AI Plus) or $8 (ChatGPT Go). Above it, a power-user band runs $100 to $200 per month, with Google AI Ultra at $249.99 at the top. This guide answers one question: how much does AI cost in 2026, across every major tool, every tier, and every API. We compared ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, and DeepSeek plan by plan, and pulled token prices for nine production models. The result: a clear answer […]

For the first time ever, Mac users can install all three flagship AI apps natively. Google’s Gemini for Mac shipped on April 15, 2026, and that closes the gap with ChatGPT and Claude, which have had polished native apps on macOS for over a year. Three apps, three different philosophies, and exactly one Dock you have to share between them. This is the first month a real three-way comparison is even possible, so we ran ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini side by side on the same M-series Mac for two weeks. Below you get the honest verdict on which native app wins for which workflow and what each one uniquely does […]

WWDC 2026 runs June 8 to 12, with the keynote on Monday June 8 at 10am Pacific Time, streamed online globally and capped by an in-person event at Apple Park. Apple confirmed the dates and AI focus on March 23, 2026, and the company’s own teaser graphic has already hinted at a redesigned Siri. This year’s conference is the most consequential AI moment Apple has had since Apple Intelligence debuted in 2024. Bloomberg, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac all report that iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will introduce a new Extensions system for piping Siri queries into third-party AI assistants like Claude and Gemini, with the door open to Grok […]

Claude pricing in 2026 has seven core SKUs: Free at $0, Pro at $20/month ($17 with annual billing), Max 5x at $100/month, Max 20x at $200/month, Team Standard at $25/seat, Team Premium at $125/seat, and custom Enterprise contracts at $20/seat plus API usage. API rates run from $1 per million input tokens on Haiku 4.5 up to $25 per million output tokens on Opus 4.7. This guide breaks down every Claude pricing dimension you’ll actually pay for: subscription tiers, API rates per million tokens, Claude Code, AWS Bedrock, prompt caching, and the Batch API. We pulled every number directly from claude.com/pricing, the official Claude API docs, and AWS Bedrock, then […]