General AI News

Candy AI pricing reviewed tier by tier with the real token cost most people miss. Here is what active users end up paying each month.

Alec Radford’s pre-1931 language model talkie just dropped. The 13B vintage LLM is a clean test of how AI generalizes vs memorizes.

Two federal courts split on whether AI chats are private in April 2026. Here’s what the rulings mean for Character AI and Replika users.

An amateur used GPT-5.4 to crack a 60-year-old open math problem in April 2026. The lesson for RR readers is not what you think.

Janitor AI rolled out mandatory face photo age verification on April 25, 2026. Here’s what changed, why users are refusing, and what to do next.

The best AI shopping agents in 2026 ranked by autonomy level. From browse-only assistants to full-checkout agents, here is which ones close the loop.

OpenAI just launched GPT-5.5 in April 2026 with real computer-use and multi-step agent workflows. Here is why this release changes the playbook.

Grok is throwing high demand errors today April 23 2026, and SuperGrok Ani, Rudi, and Valentine users are stuck. Here is what is happening and what to do.

Anthropic Claude ID verification just went live in April 2026. Passport, live selfie, four trigger categories. Here’s who’s getting locked out.

Kimi K2.6 just dropped (April 2026), an open-source model that tops frontier coding benchmarks at a fraction of API cost. Here is what changed.