Reviews, explainers and practical guides. Which AI tools are worth using, what a new API release means for developers, and how to actually use the thing.
OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 per million input tokens and claims to match its flagship on one benchmark at a tenth of the price. Here are the claims, the pricing and a reality check.
Hugging Face's AWS Trainium model support tracker shows which popular Hub models run unmodified on Trainium2, with cores, memory and time for each test run.
Granite Speech 5.0 is IBM's free, open speech model: transcription in six languages, fast on-device recognition and better meeting notes. What it does, and lacks.
Phonon TTS is a free text-to-speech model from Paris startup Gradium that runs offline on phones, laptops and a Raspberry Pi. What it does and how to try it.
The Agentic AI Foundation takes in four projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba. Here is what each does and why it matters if you build agents.
The OpenAI Decisions API is now open to all developers. It answers bounded questions up to 10x faster than GPT-6 Luna and charges nothing for output tokens.
Canva Craft is Canva's first in-house image model: 2K images, 30 aspect ratios, readable text and layered edits, free in Dream Lab and via the Canva API.
1Password for Agents lets Claude Duet, ChatGPT Work, Muse and Grok Bot sign in for you after you approve, with the password never shown to the AI agent.
The Nirva AI pendant records only its wearer's voice and turns it into insights. Price, battery, privacy defaults and the $33m behind it, explained.
Recursive Flint is a free, Apache 2.0 coding model that runs offline on a laptop. What it does, how fast it is, its limits, and what it means for developers.
Claude Duet is Anthropic's new background AI agent that watches your apps and does tasks while you're away. What it does, its limits, and who can get it now.
ChatGPT locked chats hide conversations behind a PIN or Face ID. Here is how to turn them on, what they do not protect, and why a forgotten PIN wipes them.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is out on the MiniMax API at $0.15 per million input tokens and 200+ tokens a second. Here is what it does, what it costs and how it compares.
Meta Muse gave a Toronto seller's home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer after an 'always allow' setup choice. Here is what to check before you delegate.
Mercury 3 from Inception Labs is a diffusion language model that writes over 1,000 tokens per second, with a 1M-token context and prices from $0.20 per million.
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