タグ: chatGPT

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 have open. OpenAI also added an in-app browser, image generation with gpt-image-2.0, memory, and over 90 new plugins in the same release. We spent a day with the updated app on Apple Silicon and on an Intel Mac. The short version, Codex on Mac stopped being a coding tool and turned into a general-purpose agent […]

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, 2026) in one app. If you are on Mac, you have more options than the default ChatGPT desktop app gives you, and most of them are cheaper, faster, or both. If you stick with Claude, Anthropic’s Claude Cowork desktop agent is the agentic surface to know about on Mac and Windows. This is an honest […]

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 says GPT-5.5 has 60% fewer hallucinations than GPT-5.4. The SWE-bench Pro score came in at 58.6%, well short of the “high 70s” leaks — one reason OpenAI kept the GPT-5 branding. Read the full launch breakdown in OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5. GPT-6 now refers to OpenAI’s next-next model. The context below is preserved as a record […]

Update — May 2, 2026: Read our new 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) and the older 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 900 million weekly active users and roughly 64.5% global market share. So which one should you actually use? We compared Grok vs ChatGPT across benchmarks, pricing, coding, writing, […]

Meta’s Muse Spark scored 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, making it the highest-ranked free AI model available right now. It trails GPT-5.5 (59, released April 23, 2026), Gemini 3.1 Pro (57) and Claude Opus 4.6 (53), but the fact that it costs nothing puts real pressure on every paid competitor. Shortly after launch, the Meta AI app jumped from #57 to #5 on the App Store. Claude users who want agentic workflows beyond chat should also see our Claude Cowork guide. But raw benchmark scores don’t tell you which model to open when you need to write an email, debug code, or analyze a medical paper. We compared […]

76% of freelancers now use AI tools in their work according to Fiverr’s 2025 Freelance Economy Report, and 64% report a meaningful increase in productivity. The biggest time sinks for any freelancer are not the actual client work, they are the business documents surrounding it. Writing proposals, drafting contracts, creating client reports, and polishing professional communications eat up hours that could go toward billable projects. The problem is that most freelancers cobble together five or more tools to cover these tasks. ChatGPT for drafting, Grammarly for proofreading, a proposal tool for formatting, a contract template service, and maybe a report builder. That is easily $50+/month in subscriptions before you have […]

AI system instructions are one of the most powerful yet underused features in modern chatbots. They let you define how an AI responds to you, every single time, without repeating yourself in each conversation. Used well, they eliminate the most common frustration with AI: getting generic responses that require constant correction. Yet most people never touch them. They open ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and start typing, getting generic responses that require constant correction. System instructions fix that problem at the root. In this guide, we cover what system instructions actually are, how they differ from regular prompts, how to set them up on every major AI platform, and share advanced […]

78% of organizations worldwide were using AI in their workflows as of 2024, according to McKinsey’s Global AI Survey,, and Excel remains the most widely used data tool in business. Yet most people still build spreadsheets the hard way, manually typing formulas, cleaning data by hand, and formatting cells one by one. Microsoft’s built-in Copilot can help, but it costs $20/month on top of your Microsoft 365 subscription, and while it can now create basic spreadsheets with Edit with Copilot, it works best when editing existing files. The best way to use AI with Excel in 2026 is Fello AI. It generates complete, downloadable .xlsx files with working formulas, formatted […]

Google NotebookLM has had one of the most packed update cycles of any AI tool in recent memory. Since October 2025, the platform has shipped six major upgrades, including Deep Research, a Gemini 3 engine upgrade, built-in slide editing with PPTX export, and the brand-new Cinematic Video Overviews that launched in March 2026, powered by Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Veo 3. The free plan still exists, but a new four-tier pricing structure now separates what each type of user can access. This guide covers every NotebookLM update from October 2025 through March 2026, explains how to use each new feature, and breaks down the current pricing tiers so […]

70% of Americans have little to no confidence that companies will use AI responsibly with their personal data, according to Pew Research. That number tells you everything about where we are right now. AI chatbots are more useful than ever, but the privacy trade-offs are real, and most people feel powerless to do anything about it. The good news is that you don’t have to choose between using AI and protecting your privacy. From simple settings changes to running AI models entirely on your own device, there are practical steps you can take right now to keep your data under your control. This guide covers every layer of protection available […]