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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…

GPT-5.6-Cyber: OpenAI’s Hacking Model, and Why You Cannot Use It

OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber on August 10, 2026, a model trained to find zero-days and build exploit chains, tuned to refuse far less than the ChatGPT you use…

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…

AI Safety Incidents in 2026: The Running List

The most serious AI safety incidents of 2026 did not happen in the wild. They happened inside the labs’ own testing, and the UK government has now published the…

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…

OpenAI Astra: What It Is, What It Proved, and When You Can Use It

OpenAI named its next model family Astra on August 1, 2026, and announced it by publishing ten new results in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here is…

Apple Sues OpenAI: What It Means for Siri and Your iPhone

On Monday 3 August 2026, Apple asked a federal judge to bar OpenAI and two former Apple employees from accessing, using or disclosing its confidential information…

AI Models Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat Their Own Test

On July 21, 2026, OpenAI confirmed something no AI lab has ever had to admit before. Two of its own models broke out of a sealed test environment, discovered a…

Claude Opus 5 Review: Pricing, Benchmarks, and the New Effort Setting

Claude Opus 5 is here. Anthropic released its newest flagship model on July 24, 2026, and the headline is hard to ignore: it delivers close to Claude Fable 5…

Sakana AI’s Fugu-Ultra v1.1 Is Here: Better Benchmarks, Same Price

Sakana AI has released Fugu-Ultra v1.1, an upgrade to its frontier orchestration model that the lab says gains up to 7.9 points over v1.0 across every benchmark it…

Gemini 3.6 Flash Is Here: Pricing, Benchmarks and What Changed

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash on July 21, 2026, and the headline number is not a benchmark. It is the price. Output tokens now cost $7.50 per million, down from…

Is Codex Wearing Out Your Mac’s SSD? The Codex SSD Bug Explained

One developer measured roughly 37 TB written to their SSD in just 21 days of running OpenAI’s Codex, which extrapolates to about 640 TB per year. That is a problem…

Qwen 3.8: Alibaba’s 2.4T Model Tested Against the Fable 5 Claim

Qwen 3.8 is no longer a preview with a marketing claim attached to it. Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max generally available on August 3, 2026, and this time the model…

NotebookLM Is Now Gemini Notebook: What Changed and What Stayed the Same

On July 16, 2026, Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding its popular research tool into the wider Gemini brand. If you woke up to a new blue-purple…

Claude for Teachers: Anthropic’s Free AI for Educators Explained

Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on July 14, 2026, giving verified US K-12 educators free access to premium Claude built for the classroom. The offer is free…

Gemini 3.5 Pro Release Date: What We Know (+ Flash Review)

Google split Gemini 3.5 into two launches, and only one has actually arrived. Gemini 3.5 Flash went live on May 19, 2026 at Google I/O 2026 and did something Google…

Apple Intelligence Is Coming to China, Powered by Alibaba’s Qwen

On July 15, 2026, China’s Cyberspace Administration approved Apple Intelligence for the country, and the model doing the heavy lifting is not ChatGPT. It is…

Kimi K3: Moonshot’s 2.8T Open-Weight Model Explained, Specs, Pricing and Benchmarks

Moonshot AI published the full Kimi K3 weights on July 27, 2026, eleven days after the model went live in the Kimi app. The Hugging Face repository carries 96…

What Is ChatGPT Work? OpenAI’s New Agent Mode Explained

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…

Gemini Omni Flash: Google’s Talk-to-Edit AI Video Model Explained

Gemini Omni Flash lets you make and edit short videos by talking to them, and it costs just $0.10 per second of generated footage. That works out to roughly $1 for…

The Ultimate ChatGPT 5 Model Comparison: GPT-5.0 to GPT-5.6

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…

ChatGPT Live: OpenAI’s New GPT-Live Voice Model Explained

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…

ChatGPT 5.6 Is Live: Sol, Terra, and Luna Explained

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…

Muse Spark 1.1: Meta’s Strongest Coding and Agentic AI Yet

Muse Spark 1.1 landed on July 9, 2026, and Meta is calling it its strongest model yet for real-world coding and agentic work. The upgrade comes from Meta…

Is ChatGPT Free? What You Get on the Free Plan in 2026

Yes, ChatGPT is free, and on August 6, 2026 OpenAI announced changes that make the free plan dramatically better. The free tier started moving to GPT-5.6 Luna as…

Grok 4.5 erschienen: Spezifikationen, Benchmarks, Preise und alles Neue

Am 8. Juli 2026 veröffentlichte xAI Grok 4.5, sein erstes Modell, das speziell für Coding und agentische Arbeit entwickelt wurde. Das ist kein allgemeines…

Grok 5: Release Date & All We Know So Far

Update, August 2, 2026: One correction first, because most roundups get it wrong. Grok Voice did not launch in June 2026. Voice mode has been in the Grok app since…

Is Perplexity AI Free? What You Get on the Free Plan in 2026

Yes, Perplexity AI is free. You can use it at perplexity.ai with no credit card and no account needed for basic searches, and Perplexity runs a permanent free tier…

Ist Grok AI kostenlos? Was du mit dem Free-Plan 2026 bekommst

Ja, Grok AI ist kostenlos. Du kannst es auf grok.com oder innerhalb von X ohne Kreditkarte und ohne Abo nutzen, und xAI hat eine echte kostenlose Stufe beibehalten…