タグ: OpenAI

In December 2025, Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, added generative AI to its search results with two features, AI Overviews and AI Chat. The move split its audience instantly. Some users welcomed a greener way to use AI, while many long-time fans pushed back hard, calling it the one thing a climate-focused search engine should never touch. This guide explains exactly what Ecosia AI is, which models run it, whether it actually uses water, and how it stacks up against ChatGPT. You will also get the four-step process to turn AI off completely if you would rather keep your search clean. We have pulled every figure from Ecosia’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

OpenAI’s top customer burns 100 billion tokens a month, and Sam Altman just admitted AI costs became a huge issue in 2026. Here’s what changed and how to cut your own AI bill.

Dario Amodei is (1) the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude. (2) a former Vice President of Research at OpenAI who led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3. (3) a Princeton-trained biophysicist with a PhD in neural-circuit electrophysiology. (4) a $7 billion billionaire as of February 2026 per Forbes. (5) the author of the essay “Machines of Loving Grace” that put the 2026-2027 powerful AI timeline at the center of the global AI conversation. He is 43 years old, born in San Francisco in 1983 to a Jewish-American mother and an Italian-American father. He is older brother of Anthropic president Daniela Amodei. This article covers Dario […]

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. For a chatbot built specifically around lighter, lower-energy models, see our GreenPT review. An independent 2025 benchmark put Claude Sonnet at roughly 2.8 Wh for a medium prompt, DeepSeek-V3 near 2 Wh for a medium prompt, and DeepSeek-R1 reasoning at about 29 Wh, the same heavyweight tier as GPT-5-class models. Credible per-prompt estimates span more than 65x. At scale the picture is […]

For the first time since ChatGPT launched, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in US business adoption. Ramp’s April 2026 AI Index, published on May 13, puts Anthropic at 34.4% of tracked enterprise spending versus OpenAI at 32.3%. Anthropic added 3.8 percentage points in a single month while OpenAI fell 2.9. A year ago, OpenAI sat near 32% and Anthropic was under 8%. The lead is one month old, but the trajectory is brutal. If you’re choosing between Claude and ChatGPT, or trying to make sense of which company you actually want to bet on, the honest answer is messier than the headline. OpenAI is still the biggest AI brand on the […]

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a typical chatbot reply. The scary viral ~500 mL “per email” number comes from also counting the electricity supply chain, which is why estimates span more than 1,000x. At scale it adds up, with US data centers consuming about 17 billion gallons of water directly in 2023 and that figure projected to double or even quadruple by 2028. This guide gives you verified numbers for every version of the question, so per prompt, per question, per day, per year, and per […]

ChatGPT Personal Finance is the biggest expansion of ChatGPT’s role in your daily life since memory, and it’s also the most polarizing. OpenAI launched the Personal Finance preview on May 15, 2026, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the United States only. Plaid powers the bank connections, with support for more than 12,000 banks, brokerages, and credit cards, including Chase, Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, American Express, and Capital One. Once your accounts are linked, ChatGPT can read balances, transactions, investments, and liabilities, and answer real questions about your money grounded in your actual numbers, not a generic financial textbook. For the bigger question of whether software can actually beat the market, see […]

How much energy does ChatGPT use? A single query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, roughly what an oven draws in a little over one second. Independent analysis by Epoch AI puts a typical GPT-4o query near 0.3 Wh, about the same as one Google search. The catch is that heavier models reverse this; researchers estimate GPT-5 averages around 18 watt-hours per query, with complex answers reaching 40 Wh. Across 2.5 billion queries a day, even the small number adds up to roughly 310 GWh a year. This guide gives you a dated, sourced answer for every version of the question, so per query, […]