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Best AI Shopping Assistants in 2026: ChatGPT vs Amazon vs Perplexity vs Google

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 […]

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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The Real 2026 Numbers

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, […]