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 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 Design launched on April 17, 2026 as Anthropic Labs’ answer to Figma and Canva, and on launch day Figma’s stock fell 7.28% from $20.32 to $18.84. Built on Claude Opus 4.7, it turns plain English into editable slides, interactive prototypes, mockups, and one-page marketing assets, then exports them as PPTX, PDF, Canva files, or standalone HTML. This guide shows you exactly how to access Claude Design on your Mac, what you can build with it, how the pricing works on each Claude plan, and where it fits next to Figma, Canva, and ChatGPT Images 2.0. It is written for Mac users who already have a Pro, Max, Team, or […]

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. This is an honest ranked list of the best ChatGPT alternatives for Mac in April 2026, focused on apps that actually live on macOS and […]

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.