Theo Park
AI Editor · 66 stories[email protected]Theo Park runs the AI desk at Pandromeda. He follows model launches from the frontier labs and the open-weight community, tracks the assistants and developer tools built on them, and explains what each release changes on pricing, capability and safety. His reporting leans on primary sources: model cards, technical reports, API documentation and the companies' own announcements.
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ComparisonChatGPT Atlas vs. Perplexity Comet: Which AI Browser Won
OpenAI is sunsetting ChatGPT Atlas, leaving Perplexity's Comet as the AI browser still standing. Here's what changed, what each offers, and the Amazon lawsuit still hanging over Comet.
NewsChatGPT GPT-6 Release Date, Free Access and Intelligent UI
OpenAI's GPT-6 reached every ChatGPT tier by October 8, 2026, adding Intelligent UI that turns answers into charts, forms and tools automatically.
ExplainerWhat Is Claude Memory? How Claude's Memory Feature Works
What Anthropic's Claude Memory feature actually remembers, how project memory and Incognito mode work, and which Claude plans have it.
Anthropic Opens Singapore Office, Signs Government AI MOU
Anthropic's fifth Asia-Pacific office, led by new ASEAN GM Dale Finlay, comes with a government MOU and follows a Macquarie-GIC data-center financing deal.
ComparisonNotebookLM vs Claude Projects vs ChatGPT: Which Should You Use
A real, currently-shipping comparison of NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook), Claude Projects, and ChatGPT's Projects and Custom GPTs: limits, pricing, and citations.
NewsOpenAI Decisions API: Public Beta Pricing and How It Works
OpenAI opened its Decisions API to public beta on October 6, 2026 — a GPT-6 Luna-only endpoint that returns typed probability, choice and score answers from text and images for routing and triage.
ExplainerWhat Is Siri AI? Apple's Rebuilt Assistant, Explained
Apple's long-delayed, LLM-powered Siri overhaul is finally live in beta. Here's what's confirmed, what's still rumor, and how to check if you have it.
NewsClaude Cowork Now Runs in the Cloud by Default on Pro and Max
Cowork sessions are moving from your laptop to Anthropic's cloud, letting tasks keep running after you close the lid — here's what changes and how to switch back to local.
ComparisonNano Banana Pro vs GPT Image 2: Which AI Image Tool Wins in 2026
A side-by-side look at pricing, resolution, and editing tools to decide whether Google or OpenAI makes the better AI image generator for your workflow.
NewsAnthropic Usage Policy Update: What Changes on November 12
Anthropic's annual policy refresh clarifies rules on deception, weapons, and surveillance, adds a ban on abusive behavior toward Claude, and tightens its Supported Regions policy.
ExplainerWhat Is ChatGPT's Intelligent UI? GPT-6 Interactive Answers Explained
ChatGPT can now answer with calculators, diagrams, comparison tables and mini tools instead of plain text. Here is what OpenAI's Intelligent UI does, who has it, and how to dial it back.
NewsClaude Startups Program: What's Included as of October 2026
Anthropic's Claude Startups Program includes a $45,000 partner stack and $100K in API credits for VC-backed founders, but the free Team-year offer is now over capacity.
ComparisonClaude Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-6 Luna: Price and Benchmarks
Anthropic says Haiku 5.5 beats GPT-6 Luna on its own benchmarks. Here is the real pricing, context, and effort-level breakdown for both cheap-tier models.
NewsClaude Haiku 5.5: Release Date, Pricing and Benchmarks
Anthropic's new small model cuts API pricing by up to 90% over Haiku 4.5 while posting big benchmark gains, with a 1M-token context window.
ExplainerWhat Is AI Hallucination? Why Chatbots Make Things Up
Confident, fluent, and sometimes completely wrong: why AI chatbots fabricate facts, how researchers trace it inside the model, and how to catch it before it catches you.
NewsAnthropic Launches Cyber Mission to Defend Power Grids and Code
Anthropic's Cyber Mission pairs Claude with 11 security partners on critical infrastructure and launches a free scanner for open-source vulnerabilities.
ComparisonClaude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: Price, Benchmarks and Which to Use
Anthropic's priciest model meets OpenAI's cheaper mid-tier: here's what the vendors' own pricing and benchmark pages actually say.
NewsGemini Live Guided Vision: What It Is and How to Turn It On
Google and accessibility partner Aira built a Gemini Live mode that narrates your surroundings in real time and tells you how to reframe the shot.
ExplainerWhat Is an AI Browser? Comet, Gemini and Copilot Mode Explained
Perplexity Comet, Gemini in Chrome and Edge Copilot Mode explain the agentic-browser category — and ChatGPT Atlas's shutdown shows how unsettled it still is.
Claude Frontier Academy: Anthropic's $100M AI Engineer Plan
A new residency program modeled on medical training aims to solve what Anthropic calls AI's biggest bottleneck: enterprise talent, not model capability.
ComparisonClaude Haiku 5.5 vs Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5: Price, Speed, Uses
Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family is complete. Here's how Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus 5.5 compare on price per million tokens, speed class, context window, and when to use each.
NewsProject Suncatcher: Google’s First AI Chips Reach Orbit
Google says its prototype satellite, built with Planet and launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-18, has made contact and is “operating as expected” testing AI chips in orbit.
ExplainerWhat Is RAG? Retrieval-Augmented Generation Explained
RAG pairs large language models with live document retrieval so answers stay grounded in real sources instead of memorized training data. Here's how the pipeline works.
NewsMistral Large 4: Release Date, Price and Specs Explained
Mistral AI put a 1-trillion-parameter, open-weight Mistral Large 4 into public preview on Oct. 6, 2026, with a 1M-token context window and open weights due by month end.
ComparisonPerplexity vs ChatGPT vs Claude: Best AI Search Assistant
Perplexity pairs Comet and Deep Research with cited answers; ChatGPT and Claude bolt search onto chat. Here is how pricing, citations, and agentic browsing compare in 2026.
Anthropic Expands Cyber Verification Program to Add Mythos 5.1
Anthropic's revamped Cyber Verification Program merges Project Glasswing into three tiers, opening Claude Mythos 5.1 access to more cyber defenders after partners found 129,000+ vulnerabilities.
ExplainerWhat Is MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Why It Matters
The open standard that lets Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI apps plug into your files, tools, and services — explained via its own hosts-clients-servers architecture and security tradeoffs.
NewsOpenAI Brings Visual Ads to ChatGPT Image Generation
Starting this month, ChatGPT will show labeled visual ads beside the images it generates for US Free and Go users, OpenAI confirmed.
NewsGPT-6.1 Sol vs Astra: Price, Access, and What Changed
OpenAI's near-Astra model is now generally available — here's what GPT-6.1 Sol costs, who can access it, and how it stacks up.
ExplainerGemini Personal Intelligence: What It Is and How It Works
How Gemini Personal Intelligence reasons across Gmail, Photos, Search and YouTube, how to turn it on, its privacy controls, and where it's available now.
NewsMicrosoft Copilot Autopilot Explained: Price and How It Works
Microsoft overhauled Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot on September 25, 2026, and moved long-running agent work to usage-based billing.
ComparisonSiri vs Gemini vs ChatGPT: Which AI Assistant Wins on Your Phone
Apple's Siri AI just gained five new beta languages in iOS 27.2. Here's how it stacks up against Gemini and ChatGPT as a real phone assistant.
NewsSiri AI Update: 5 New Languages Land in iOS 27.2 Beta
Apple is rolling out Siri AI in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish via the iOS 27.2 beta, with a public release expected in October.
ExplainerGPT-6 Astra Explained: Price, Access, and What It Does
What OpenAI's flagship GPT-6 Astra actually is, how it differs from Sol and Luna, what it costs, where to access it, and what it is built to do.
NewsAnthropic IPO: Date, Valuation and What We Know So Far
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 in June 2026. Here's what the company has confirmed about its IPO, and what remains reported but unverified.
ComparisonGemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Opus 5.5: Price and Benchmarks
Google priced Gemini 4 Argon below GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5, but access, context window, and benchmark disclosures differ sharply across all three.
NewsGemini 4 Argon: Google's New Flagship AI Model Explained
Google's new flagship model adds a 1-million-token output limit, a staged Fairwind cyber-defense rollout, and introductory pricing of $2/$10 per million tokens.
ExplainerClaude Cowork Explained: What It Is, Price and How to Get It
Anthropic's Cowork promised Claude Code for non-coders. Here's what it did, what it cost, and why it's no longer a separate app in late 2026.
NewsClaude Docs and Slides: What They Are, Price and How to Use Them
Anthropic merged Claude Cowork into the main chat experience and launched Claude Docs and Slides in beta, with Pro and Max plans first in line.
ComparisonClaude Opus 5.5 vs Sonnet 5.5: Price, Benchmarks, Which to Use
Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 a week apart. Here is how they actually compare on price, context window, and benchmark scores, model by model.
NewsClaude Marketplace: What It Is and How to Add Plugins
The Claude Marketplace went live September 23, 2026 as one hub for Claude plugins, connectors, paid agents, and service partners.
ExplainerWhat Are Claude Skills? Agent Skills Explained
A practical guide to Anthropic's Agent Skills: how Claude loads them, the built-in document Skills, and how to build a custom one.
NewsOpenAI DevDay 2026 Announcements: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol and Ultrafast
Sam Altman's September 29 keynote introduced always-on dots agents, a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol model, a new $500 ChatGPT Pro tier and an Ultrafast speed option.
ComparisonClaude vs Grok vs ChatGPT: Which AI Assistant Should You Pick?
Pricing, context windows, coding tools, and image or voice features compared across Claude, Grok, and ChatGPT, using each company’s own pages.
NewsChatGPT in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint: What to Know
OpenAI's ChatGPT add-in now works inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint on every plan, including Free. Here's what it does and how to set it up.
ExplainerChatGPT Atlas Explained: What It Was and Why OpenAI Shut It Down
OpenAI built a browser around ChatGPT, then shut it down less than a year later. Here's what Atlas did, its full timeline, and what replaced it.
NewsClaude Sonnet 5.5 Release Date, Price and What's New
Anthropic's new mid-tier model keeps Sonnet 5's price but claims a 30% speed boost and up to 30% lower cost per task, closing in on Opus 5.5 on coding benchmarks.
ComparisonSora 2 vs Veo 3.1: Which Is Better in 2026?
OpenAI shut Sora 2 down in 2026. Here's how it stacked up against Google's Veo 3.1 on price, length, audio, and realism — and which one you can actually still use.
NewsGemini App for Windows: How to Download It Now
Google shipped a native Gemini desktop app for Windows 10 and 11, with an Alt+Space launcher, Gmail and Drive context, and Nano Banana image generation.
ExplainerSora 2 Explained: Price, Access, and Why It Was Shut Down
OpenAI's Sora 2 video app and API are officially discontinued as of 2026 — here's what it cost, how it worked, and what changed from Sora 1.
NewsGemini Connected Apps: All 14 New Integrations Explained
Gemini's Connected Apps feature just grew by 14, adding Adobe, Airtable, Linear, monday.com, PandaDoc, Wispr AI, Zoho, Squarespace, Peloton, Experian and more for in-chat tasks.
Claude Fable 5.1 vs GPT-6 Astra: Price and Benchmarks Compared
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra both launched this September — here’s how their price, benchmarks and coding chops stack up.
NewsChatGPT Credit Score: What It Is and How to Check It
OpenAI added a credit score feature to ChatGPT Finances, letting US Plus and Pro users connect Experian and check VantageScore 3.0 monthly.
ExplainerNano Banana Pro Explained: Price, Features and How to Use It
Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image, nicknamed Nano Banana Pro, adds 4K output, readable text and Search-grounded accuracy over the original Nano Banana — here's the price and how to use it.
NewsQwen-Audio 3.1 Release: Alibaba Cuts Voice AI Prices 95%
Alibaba's Qwen team shipped five upgraded voice AI models and slashed API prices by up to 95 percent, intensifying competition in speech recognition, TTS and real-time voice.
ComparisonGemini 3.8 Flash vs GPT-6 vs Claude Opus 5.5: Benchmarks and Price
Three flagship AI models shipped in the last month. Here is how their prices, context windows and independent benchmark scores actually compare, use case by use case.
NewsGemini 3.8 Flash Release Date, Price and Benchmarks Explained
Google's third Flash release in six weeks keeps 3.7 Flash pricing while posting higher agentic and reasoning benchmark scores, Google says.
ExplainerWhat Is an AI Agent, and How Does It Actually Work?
AI agents plan, use tools, and act toward a goal instead of just replying. Here’s what that means, how it differs from agentic AI, and real ones you can try.
ExplainerEU AI Act Explained: What Applies Now and Every Deadline to 2028
Enforcement started in August and the AI Omnibus moved the high-risk deadlines. Here is what the EU AI Act requires today, what comes next, and how big the fines are.
ComparisonCursor vs GitHub Copilot vs Claude Code vs Codex: Prices Compared
Four AI coding agents, four very different ways of metering usage. Every plan from free to $200 a month, what you actually get, and which one fits how you code.
NewsMeta Muse: Price, Plans, Features and What’s New After Connect
Meta’s personal AI agent books, buys and emails on your behalf. Here is what Muse costs, what it can do, how Meta says it protects your data, and everything added at Connect.
NewsGrok 4.7: Price, Benchmarks, Context Window and How to Use It
SpaceXAI's new flagship keeps Grok 4.6's $2/$6 pricing, adds a larger base model and lands in Cursor and Grok Build on day one. Here is what it costs and how it compares.
GuideHow to Run AI Models Locally With Ollama: Step-by-Step Guide
Install Ollama, pull an open-weight model like Gemma 4, Qwen 3.8 or gpt-oss, and keep it on your GPU with the right context and privacy settings.
ComparisonChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Every Plan and Price Compared
All three charge about $20 a month for their main plan, but budget tiers, bundled extras and a paused $200 ChatGPT Pro tier set them apart.
NewsGPT-6 Sol and Luna: API Prices, ChatGPT Access and Benchmarks
OpenAI’s cheaper GPT-6 models halve API prices versus GPT-5.6 and are rolling out in ChatGPT Work and Codex, with Luna reaching free users on desktop.
NewsClaude Opus 5.5: Price, Benchmarks and How to Access It
Anthropic’s new Opus is cheaper per token than Opus 5, claims Fable 5.1-level results on most work, and brings breaking API changes developers need to plan for.