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The Problem With Auto Model Selection
Gemini free accounts now pick the model for you. Convenient, until the hard question quietly gets the cheap answer.
On-Device AI Is Quietly Winning the Parts That Matter
Google's offline meeting app and Apple's on-device push prove the interesting race isn't bigger models, it's models that don't leave your laptop.
The Offline Meeting App That Actually Respects My Laptop
Google's Edge Foresight runs the whole meeting assistant on-device. For once, 'private' isn't a setting I have to remember to turn on.
The '44% Faster' Claim and What It Hid
GPT-6's search answers come back 44% sooner, OpenAI says. True, and also a number that hides what you're giving up for the speed.
Nano Banana 2.1 Made Me Reconsider AI Image Editing
Fourteen reference images and clean text rendering shouldn't be a big deal. They quietly fixed the two things that made AI editing feel like a toy.
Why I Won't Let an Agent Spend My Money Yet
Agent checkout is here, and Amazon already opted out. Until the refund path is as easy as the buy button, the human stays on the tap.
I Stopped Using AI to Summarize My Reading
A summary saved me time and cost me the part where I formed my own opinion. I went back to marginalia.
The Quiet Death of the Chat Window
We said the chatbot box was the future. A month of agents and embedded assistants suggests the box was just a first draft.
My Week With GPT-6's Intelligent UI
I lived in the new interactive ChatGPT for seven days. The good was real, the lazy was worse, and the calculator trick got old fast.
GPT-6's New UI Feels Less Like a Chat and More Like a Website
Buttons, forms, charts, and a calculator inside the answer. Clever, but I caught myself trusting the interactive widget a little too fast.