Photograph a crumpled receipt and ask a chatbot what it contains: reading and condensing documents is core work for these tools. Photograph a chessboard and ask where the pieces stand: OpenAI’s documentation picks that exact example when it concedes its models handle precise spatial location badly. A multimodal model, plainly, takes in more than text … Read more
Anthropic has filed an S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT, opening the books of Claude’s maker for the first time. Submitted on 26 October 2026, it was announced in an official note; the full filing is on the SEC site. TechCrunch, Engadget and Xataka covered … Read more
OpenAI and Georgia Tech researchers asked a latest-generation open model for co-author Adam Tauman Kalai’s birthday, adding one condition: answer only if you know. Three attempts produced three different dates, all false; it never admitted ignorance. That example opens Why Language Models Hallucinate (September 2025), which says the problem comes from text-prediction training and from … Read more
People using a free chatbot often ask if upgrading pays. On 22 October 2026, the first paid tier ranges from €4.99 a month (Google AI Plus) to $20 before tax (Claude Pro, with no cheaper paid option). For the four assistants, the offer is similar: more use before a cap, the strongest models and extra … Read more
Parents and teachers in Spain asking whether minors can use chatbots, and with what protections, must compare company terms with data-protection law. By October 2026, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude set different age floors, while Spain’s 14-year consent rule survives a reform that died in Congress. Key Point: Organic Law 3/2018, Article 7, lets minors consent … Read more
The preconfigured AI assistant — the small, purpose-built bot you assemble inside ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude so you never have to paste the same instructions twice — is heading into its most disruptive stretch yet. Two of the three dominant formats are being taken apart and rebuilt under new names, while the third is quietly … Read more
Ask a general-purpose chatbot about an internal policy and it will often answer from memory — fluently, confidently and occasionally wrong. Retrieval-augmented generation, better known as RAG, is the fix the industry settled on: before composing a sentence, the system searches a document collection you supplied, pulls the passages that look relevant and drafts its … Read more
Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app in which Claude stops waiting to be prompted and starts acting on its own. Announced on 21 October, Duet runs on a dedicated computer in the cloud with its own browser, watches the applications a subscriber connects, and keeps working after the laptop … Read more
TechNews DevTop — Reasoning models are now a default setting across major AI platforms, but the label hides a commercial trade-off. Before answering, these systems generate internal reasoning tokens: an invisible draft that helps with code debugging, planning, math and long-document analysis. That draft is billed, occupies context and adds latency. The practical question is … Read more
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are converging on an unglamorous prompting playbook: state the job clearly, supply missing context, show the pattern you want, define the output and split complicated work. For users who have watched a chatbot nail one request and fumble the next, that agreement matters more than another list of “100 prompts that … Read more