Does GTA 6 Use AI? What Rockstar Confirmed, and What It Didn’t
Rockstar and Take-Two say GTA 6 was made without generative AI: CEO Strauss Zelnick said it has zero part in the game. GTA 6 still uses game AI to run its NPCs and…
Apple HomeView: Price, Siri AI, and What the Fine Print Says
Apple HomeView is a $299 smart display with a 7-inch screen, an A18 chip and Siri AI built in, shipping on 13 November 2026. Apple's footnotes add three things the…
Meta Muse Wonder: The Benchmarks, the Price, and Where Claude Still Wins
Meta Muse Wonder launched on October 12, 2026 in two versions, and the larger one, Muse Wonder Full, wins 7 of the 14 rows on Meta’s own benchmark chart. The…
Claude Haiku 5.5: Free in Claude, 75% Cheaper, and When to Pick It Over Sonnet
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026. Every Claude plan can pick it on Claude.ai, including Free, it costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5…
Anthropic IPO: Date, Valuation and How to Buy Anthropic Stock
Anthropic has not set an IPO date. It confidentially filed a draft S-1 on June 1, 2026, and Bloomberg reports it could list as soon as mid-November at a valuation…
Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk): Specs, Benchmarks, Price and When the Weights Land
Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, is a 1-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 49 billion active parameters. Mistral released it as a public preview…
OpenAI Dots at DevDay 2026: The $100 Agent and Everything Else OpenAI Announced
OpenAI announced dots at DevDay 2026 on 29 September. A dot is an always-on agent inside ChatGPT that runs on GPT-6 Astra, gets its own cloud computer and keeps…
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Here: Price, Benchmarks, and the Effort Setting That Decides Your Bill
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, 2026 at the same $2 and $10 per million tokens as Sonnet 5. It nearly matches Opus 5.5 on several benchmarks…
Xiaomi MiMo Explained: What V2.6 Is, What It Costs, and How to Use It
Xiaomi MiMo is Xiaomi’s family of open-weight AI models, and on 21 September 2026 it took the top spot among open models. The flagship, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, is a…
Claude Opus 5.5 Is Here: Price, Benchmarks, and Who Actually Gets It
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, the first model in a new Claude 5.5 family. It does the work of Fable 5.1 at 40% less cost than Opus 5…
Grok 4.7: What Changed, What It Costs and Whether to Upgrade
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 on 21 September 2026 at exactly the price Grok 4.6 cost, $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The token price…
Jev and System One Models: The AI That Answers in Numbers, Not Words
A new AI lab says its model is 444 times cheaper than an LLM and cannot hallucinate. Its own documentation and two independent tests tell a more useful story about…
ChatGPT Sponsored Agents: The Ads That Talk Back, Explained
OpenAI announced on 16 September 2026 that it is testing Sponsored Agents, a ChatGPT ad format you can hold a conversation with. Here is what it is, how to spot…
iPhone 18 Pro AI Features: Every One, and Which Need the New Phone
Apple gave AI top billing at the iPhone 18 Pro launch on 9 September 2026, and the A20 Pro doubles the Neural Engine to 32 cores. Yet almost every AI feature Apple…
iPhone Duo: Every AI Feature in Apple's First Foldable
Apple announced the iPhone Duo on 9 September 2026, its first foldable iPhone, at $1,999 for 256GB. It runs the same A20 Pro chip as the iPhone 18 Pro, so every AI…
iPhone Buying Guide 2026: Buy Now, or Wait for the iPhone 18?
Apple’s event has been and gone. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199, the foldable is called the iPhone Duo, and the phone actually named the iPhone 18 is not coming…
Muse Spark 1.3: What Meta’s Own Benchmark Chart Actually Shows
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, 2026, its fourth Muse Spark in five months. It wins every coding and long-context row on Meta’s own chart and loses…
Gemini 3.8 Flash: Benchmarks, Pricing and What the Headlines Got Wrong
Google made Gemini 3.8 Flash generally available on September 2, 2026, three weeks after 3.7 Flash. It wins 8 of the 14 rows in Google's own comparison table and…
Who Is John Ternus? Apple’s New CEO, Net Worth & AI Plan
John Ternus is the CEO of Apple, effective 1 September 2026. He is a 51-year-old mechanical engineer who spent 25 years building the iPhone, iPad and Mac, and he…
Tencent Hy4 Preview: The Biggest Apache 2.0 Model Yet, and What It Actually Scores
Tencent released Hy4 preview on August 28, 2026 and open-sourced it the same day, 770 billion parameters under Apache 2.0. That makes it the largest permissively…
GLM 5.3 Flash: Z.ai Ships Ox Alpha as a 320B Open Model
Z.ai released GLM 5.3 Flash on August 26, 2026, and confirmed it is the stealth model that had been running on OpenRouter as Ox Alpha. It is a 320B model with 18B…
Are AI Companies Destroying Books? What the Court Files Actually Show
Court documents unsealed in January 2026 show Anthropic bought millions of used print books, cut off the spines, scanned the pages and threw the originals away. In…
GLM 5.3: What Z.ai Shipped, and the Weights It Held Back
Update, October 7, 2026: Z.ai published the GLM 5.3 weights on Hugging Face on August 28, 2026, two weeks after launch as promised, under a custom GLM-5.3 License…
Gemini 3.7 Flash: Pricing, Benchmarks and the Catch Google Buried
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, just 23 days after Gemini 3.6 Flash. Coding scores jumped hard and the price halved to $0.75 per million input…
AI Models Discontinued in 2026: The Running List
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google retired dozens of AI models in 2026, and more shutdowns land every month. Here is the running list of what is already gone, what…
Grok 4.6: What's New, Benchmarks and Pricing
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on 12 August 2026. It scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ties GPT-5.6 Sol, and costs 60 percent less than the…
What Is Grok Bot? SpaceXAI’s AI Agent App for Mac and iPhone
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot on 11 August 2026, and it is not a chatbot. Each account gets a persistent cloud computer that AI agents use to sign into your apps with…
Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code: Meta’s Coding Agent for Mac
Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.2 on 5 August 2026 alongside Muse Code, its first terminal coding agent, and the launch charts tell a more honest story than the headlines…
AI for Teachers: The Best Tools and Free Access in 2026
Six in ten US teachers now use AI for their work. The ones who use it at least weekly estimate they save 5.9 hours every week, roughly six weeks of reclaimed time…
EU AI Act Explained: What It Is and How It Affects the AI Tools You Use
The EU AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive law on artificial intelligence, formally Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, and it sorts every AI system into four risk…
