タグ: OpenAI

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026, and it turns ChatGPT from a chat window into an agent that finishes real projects on its own. Instead of answering a question and stopping, ChatGPT Work takes a brief, works in the background for minutes or even hours, and hands you a finished file: a spreadsheet, a slide deck, a report, or a working web app. It runs on GPT-5.6, OpenAI’s newest model family, which reached general availability the same day. The same release rebuilt the ChatGPT desktop app on Mac and Windows, merging Chat, Work, and Codex into one application and renaming the old app ChatGPT Classic. This guide breaks […]

On Friday, 10 July 2026, Apple sued OpenAI in federal court in the Northern District of California, accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing its trade secrets to build a rival AI device. Apple alleges the theft ran, in its words, “at every level, from members of its Technical Staff to its Chief Hardware Officer”. The complaint names OpenAI, its hardware unit io Products, OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu, and it claims that more than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. OpenAI denies everything. The filing itself has been covered everywhere. The question almost nobody is answering is the one you probably […]

OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone AI browser, on August 9, 2026, less than a year after it launched. The company confirmed the sunset on July 9, and if you built Atlas into your daily workflow on Mac, your bookmarks, history, and saved passwords will not carry over automatically. You have until that date to export your data and pick something new. Atlas only ever ran on macOS, so this hits Mac users hardest. This guide covers exactly what happened, why OpenAI killed the browser, what you need to do before the shutoff, and the best ChatGPT Atlas alternatives for Mac right now, from OpenAI’s own replacement to […]

OpenAI just published its prompting playbook for GPT-5.6, and the headline finding upends how most people write prompts. In OpenAI’s own testing, stripping repeated instructions out of a system prompt raised evaluation scores by roughly 10 to 15% while cutting total tokens by 41 to 66% and cost by 33 to 67%. The giant rule lists you wrote for older models are now making GPT-5.6 slower, more expensive, and less accurate. This GPT-5.6 prompting guide pulls the seven changes that matter most into plain English. You will learn why “state each instruction once” beats long rule stacks, how to pick between the new Sol, Terra, and Luna models, how the […]

OpenAI made GPT-5.6 public on July 9, 2026, and it is now the most capable ChatGPT model you can actually run. The flagship Sol tier scores 88.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (and 91.9% in its Sol Ultra high-effort mode), edging GPT-5.5’s own 88.0% on the same agentic-coding test, and it ships alongside two cheaper tiers, Terra and Luna, that undercut the previous generation on price. In under a year, OpenAI has shipped seven distinct versions of GPT-5, each with its own identity and price point. If you have lost track of what separates GPT-5.0 from GPT-5.6, this guide covers every model in the family, release dates, context windows, benchmarks, pricing, and […]

OpenAI launched GPT-Live, the new ChatGPT Live voice, on July 8, 2026, and it quietly replaced the Advanced Voice Mode you have been using for the past two years. The headline change is technical but you will feel it in the first ten seconds. GPT-Live is full-duplex, which means it can listen and speak at the same time, so you can cut in mid-sentence and it reacts like a person instead of waiting politely for you to finish. This guide covers what GPT-Live actually is, the difference between the free GPT-Live-1 mini and the paid GPT-Live-1, how to turn it on, and how it stacks up against Apple’s brand-new Siri […]

GPT-5.6 has been generally available since July 9, 2026, the day OpenAI ended a two-week lockdown that had limited the model to roughly 20 US-government-vetted organizations. The US Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation completed its review and cleared wider access to all three models in the family, Sol, Terra, and Luna. So if you are still searching whether ChatGPT 5.6 is out, the answer is yes, on ChatGPT, Codex, and the API alike, with a documented 1,050,000-token context window and 128,000 tokens of maximum output on the flagship. This article covers everything that matters about the GPT-5.6 release, what each of the three tiers is built for, […]

Claude hit #1 on the App Store free chart on February 28, 2026, pushing ChatGPT out of the top spot for the first time. The catalyst was Anthropic refusing the Pentagon’s demand to strip the guardrails off Claude for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The administration then told federal agencies to stop buying Anthropic products, and the Defense Secretary labelled the company a “supply chain risk.” It backfired. TechCrunch reported free users up more than 60% since January and paid subscribers more than doubled over the same stretch. For how the two companies’ philosophies shape what you actually see in the chat window, we broke down how Claude and ChatGPT […]

Yes, ChatGPT is free. Anyone can use it at no cost on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps, and the free plan is permanent rather than a short trial. As of 2026 the free tier runs on GPT-5.5 Instant, OpenAI’s fast everyday model, with a cap of roughly 10 messages every 5 hours before it switches to a lighter model until the limit resets. You do need a free account, but you never need a credit card. The real question is not whether ChatGPT is free, but whether the free tier is enough for what you do. This guide covers exactly what the free plan includes, the […]

OceanHero has helped recover more than 136 million ocean-bound plastic bottles, and the counter on its homepage climbs by tens of thousands every week. The idea is simple. You run a normal web search, OceanHero shows a few ads alongside the results, and the ad money pays people in coastal communities to collect plastic before it reaches the sea. On average, every 5 searches funds the recovery of one plastic bottle. This article breaks down exactly what OceanHero is, how the search-to-cleanup math actually works, and whether it is legit and safe to use. You will also see whether OceanHero uses AI, how it compares to Ecosia, and which alternatives […]