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ChatGPT Ads are Coming: The End of the Ad-Free Era for Free Users
Jan 16, 2026

ChatGPT Ads are Coming: The End of the Ad-Free Era for Free Users

OpenAI is finally pulling the trigger on monetization for the masses. Starting in the next few weeks, they...

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ChatGPT Health is OpenAI’s smartest wrapper yet, because healthcare is mostly paperwork and missing context
Jan 7, 2026

ChatGPT Health is OpenAI’s smartest wrapper yet, because healthcare is mostly paperwork and missing context

OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated space inside ChatGPT for health conversations on mobile and web. The...

I Open-Sourced ai-aggregator: My Daily Dashboard for Tracking New AI Models Across Providers
Jan 7, 2026

I Open-Sourced ai-aggregator: My Daily Dashboard for Tracking New AI Models Across Providers

I officially open-sourced ai-aggregator, the dashboard I use every day to keep up with new AI model releases...

AI Chatbot Market Share Jan 2026: ChatGPT Still Rules While Gemini Wakes Up
Jan 7, 2026

AI Chatbot Market Share Jan 2026: ChatGPT Still Rules While Gemini Wakes Up

Similarweb data from January 2, 2026, shows a market that is still dominated by one name, even if...

Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-5.2 vs GPT-5 mini: Quality vs Cost in 2026
Jan 6, 2026

Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-5.2 vs GPT-5 mini: Quality vs Cost in 2026

If you are choosing between frontier models right now, the decision is rarely about raw intelligence. It is...

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ChatGPT vs Gemini Image Generation: Defaults, Artifacts, and Why You Can Tell Which Is Which
Jan 6, 2026

ChatGPT vs Gemini Image Generation: Defaults, Artifacts, and Why You Can Tell Which Is Which

Meagan performed a simple test: she made a kid soccer birthday invitation in ChatGPT and Gemini, then tried...

Claude Code + Opus 4.5: When the Model Finally Grows into the Harness
Jan 3, 2026

Claude Code + Opus 4.5: When the Model Finally Grows into the Harness

I am Claude-pilled again, but not for the reason most people think. It is not that the harnesses...

My 2026 AI Predictions: Agents Get Real, Benchmarks Get Weird, and Continual Learning Stays External
Jan 2, 2026

My 2026 AI Predictions: Agents Get Real, Benchmarks Get Weird, and Continual Learning Stays External

My main bet for 2026 is that most of the visible progress will come from better tooling and...

2025 AI Timeline: The Year Reasoning, Agents, and Video All Hit at Once
Jan 1, 2026

2025 AI Timeline: The Year Reasoning, Agents, and Video All Hit at Once

2025 had one loud message: the bottleneck stopped being whether a model can do a task and became...

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Best LLMs 2025 Comparison: What to Use Now, and What to Stop Testing
Dec 30, 2025

Best LLMs 2025 Comparison: What to Use Now, and What to Stop Testing

Every few weeks, a viral post claims AI is lazy because a model failed a trick question about...

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Meta’s $2‑3 B Manus Bet: Why the Wrapper Still Matters
Dec 30, 2025

Meta’s $2‑3 B Manus Bet: Why the Wrapper Still Matters

Meta confirmed a multi‑billion‑dollar purchase of Manus, the Singapore‑based platform that lets developers run AI‑driven workflows such as...

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ARC-AGI-2 2025: From Sub‑10% to 75%+ with the Poetiq Harness on GPT‑5.2
Dec 24, 2025

ARC-AGI-2 2025: From Sub‑10% to 75%+ with the Poetiq Harness on GPT‑5.2

At the start of 2025 the ARC‑AGI‑2 benchmark was a humbling reminder: even the newest LLMs were stuck...

MiniMax M2.1 vs GLM 4.7: Speed, Cost, and Smarts in One Comparison
Dec 24, 2025

MiniMax M2.1 vs GLM 4.7: Speed, Cost, and Smarts in One Comparison

When I start looking at a new coding model the first thing I check is the hard numbers....

Seedance 1.5: A Low Cost Angle on AI Video Generation
Dec 23, 2025

Seedance 1.5: A Low Cost Angle on AI Video Generation

Nine cents for a 4-second AI video – that’s the headline that makes anyone who budgets for motion...

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ChatGPT Wrapped 2025: My Year in Review as a Prompt Whisperer and Strategist
Dec 23, 2025

ChatGPT Wrapped 2025: My Year in Review as a Prompt Whisperer and Strategist

OpenAI rolled out “Your Year with ChatGPT” on December 22, 2025. It’s an optional end-of-year recap that mirrors...

GLM-4.7 Review: Z.ai's Open-Weight Coding Model Benchmarked on Agents and Tools
Dec 22, 2025

GLM-4.7 Review: Z.ai's Open-Weight Coding Model Benchmarked on Agents and Tools

GLM-4.7 is Z.ai's latest open-weight model, built for agentic coding and tool use. Here's how it performs on...

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OpenAI's Naming Nightmare: From GPT-1 to GPT-5.2 Confusion
Dec 22, 2025

OpenAI's Naming Nightmare: From GPT-1 to GPT-5.2 Confusion

AI companies are notoriously bad at naming things. It started simple with GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. Then...

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GPT-5.2-Codex: Better Long-Horizon Agentic Coding, Bigger Diffs, and Stronger Defensive Security
Dec 19, 2025

GPT-5.2-Codex: Better Long-Horizon Agentic Coding, Bigger Diffs, and Stronger Defensive Security

OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex, a specialized version of GPT-5.2 tuned for agentic coding in Codex. This is aimed at...

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OpenRouter Wrapped 2025: What My 588.5M Tokens Says About Multi-Model Building
Dec 19, 2025

OpenRouter Wrapped 2025: What My 588.5M Tokens Says About Multi-Model Building

OpenRouters 2025 Wrapped cards are one of the few year-end stat formats that can teach you something. Not...

Bernie Sanders Wants an AI Data Center Moratorium. That’s the Worst Place to Hit the Brakes.
Dec 18, 2025

Bernie Sanders Wants an AI Data Center Moratorium. That’s the Worst Place to Hit the Brakes.

Bernie Sanders put out a new video warning that AI and robotics are going to reshape society. On...

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The TPOT Follow List: Who to Actually Follow for Frontier AI on X
Dec 17, 2025

The TPOT Follow List: Who to Actually Follow for Frontier AI on X

There\’s a specific corner of X that most people haven\’t heard of, but if you\’re serious about keeping...

Gemini 3 Flash Looks Imminent: Pricing, Nano Banana 2 Flash Leaks, and Why Tool Calling Is the Whole Point
Dec 17, 2025

Gemini 3 Flash Looks Imminent: Pricing, Nano Banana 2 Flash Leaks, and Why Tool Calling Is the Whole Point

When every major Google account posts three lightning bolt emojis in the same night, it is not subtle....

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GPT-5.2 Day 2: Benchmark Kings or Regression Weirdos? The Big Model Smell vs. SimpleBench Fails
Dec 17, 2025

GPT-5.2 Day 2: Benchmark Kings or Regression Weirdos? The Big Model Smell vs. SimpleBench Fails

GPT-5.2 dropped December 11, 2025, and two days in, the community response is… confused. The model crushes certain...

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Fal.ai’s 24-Hour Release Blitz: GPT Image 1.5, FLUX.2 [max], Wan v2.6, Veo 3.1 Extend, and Qwen Image Edit 2509
Dec 17, 2025

Fal.ai’s 24-Hour Release Blitz: GPT Image 1.5, FLUX.2 [max], Wan v2.6, Veo 3.1 Extend, and Qwen Image Edit 2509

fal.ai just turned one day into a full menu update. In roughly 24 hours, they added new endpoints...

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ChatGPT Images v1.5 Is Here: Better Editing, Still Not the Model That Beats Nano Banana Pro
Dec 16, 2025

ChatGPT Images v1.5 Is Here: Better Editing, Still Not the Model That Beats Nano Banana Pro

OpenAI just shipped a new version of ChatGPT Images powered by a new flagship image model: GPT Image...

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Highlights

  • Claude Mythos Preview: First AI to Complete AISI 32-Step Cyber Range End-to-End Apr 14, 2026
  • Model Degradation: Intentional Sabotage or Accidental Slips? Apr 14, 2026
  • AI Backlash Hits Home: Sam Altman’s Residence Faces Multiple Attacks Apr 13, 2026
  • OpenAI Super App: ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas Browser Combined Apr 10, 2026
  • Elon Musk Accidentally Leaked Anthropic’s Model Sizes Apr 10, 2026

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