タグ: Mac

Midjourney V8.1 rolled out to midjourney.com and Discord on April 30, 2026, two weeks after launching in alpha on April 14. It is the fastest model Midjourney has shipped, with standard jobs rendering 4 to 5 times faster than earlier versions and HD mode running 3x faster and 3x cheaper than V8.0. Native 2K images are now the headline feature, generated at 2048 by 2048 pixels without a separate upscale step. This Midjourney V8.1 review covers what changed since V7 and V8.0, how V8.1 stacks up against GPT Image 1.5, Imagen 4, Nano Banana Pro, and Flux 2, what it costs, and how to actually use it on a Mac […]

WWDC 2026 runs June 8 to 12, with the keynote on Monday, June 8 at 10am Pacific Time streamed on Apple.com, the Apple TV app, and the Apple YouTube channel. Apple sent media invites on May 18, 2026 confirming the full schedule, and on May 23 quietly registered a new genai.apple.com subdomain that almost nobody outside MacRumors has spotted. This year’s keynote is the most consequential AI moment Apple has ever had. On January 12, 2026, Apple and Google jointly announced that the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be built on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Google Gemini model. Apple is reportedly paying around $1 billion per year for it. […]

Claude Design is Anthropic Labs’ prompt-based design workspace that turns plain English into editable slides, interactive prototypes, mockups, and one-page assets, then exports them as PPTX, PDF, Canva files, ZIP, or standalone HTML. It launched on April 17, 2026, runs on Claude Opus 4.7, and lives at claude.ai/design. On launch day Figma’s stock fell roughly 7%, opening near $20.97 and closing around $18.92, wiping out hundreds of millions in market cap in a single session. This guide covers what Claude Design actually is, how to access it on Mac, Windows, and Linux, what it costs across the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, what you can build with it in […]

On April 21, 2026, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.0, the first image model that can actually read what you ask it to write. That single change, readable text inside the image, is what finally turns ChatGPT into a real infographic and poster tool for everyday users. No more gibberish headlines. No more broken bullet points. You type the exact text you want, the model places it cleanly, and you download a finished visual. This guide is for the people who need to make a visual today, not design pros. If you’re a teacher building a classroom handout, a student making a conference poster, a marketer pushing a campaign graphic, or […]

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 […]

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 anything above 30B parameters needs 32 GB or more. Frontier open-source models like GLM-5 or the full DeepSeek R1 need hundreds of GBs of VRAM, so skip those entirely. The five below are what actually fits. Apple’s own MLX benchmarks show the M5 chip delivering a 3 to 4 times speedup on time-to-first-token compared to […]

Which MacBook should you buy for AI in 2026? We compare every M5 model, Air, Pro, and the new MacBook Neo, for Apple Intelligence, local AI models, and AI development. RAM guide + budget picks.