ChatGPT

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI just filed paperwork with the SEC to go public. And if you’re one of the hundreds of millions of people using ChatGPT, this changes things — just not the way you’d expect. On June 8, 2026, OpenAI confirmed it had confidentially submitted an S-1 filing to the SEC. That’s the document every company needs before it can sell shares on a stock exchange. OpenAI’s valuation at last count: roughly $852 billion. Some analysts think it’ll aim for $1 trillion by the time it actually lists. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I built a working app in 47 minutes without writing a single line of code. Then a button stopped working, and I spent three hours trying to figure out why. That’s vibe coding in a nutshell — and if you’ve been anywhere near AI Twitter lately, you’ve heard the hype. “I built a SaaS in a weekend!” “Non-coders can ship now!” “The future is here!” All of that is technically true. What they don’t tell you is what happens on day two. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If your entire business runs on Claude, last week should have scared you. On June 12, 2026, the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to pull its most powerful models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — offline. Not because the models were broken. Not because Anthropic did something wrong. Because a jailbreak was flagged as a national security risk, and the government gave Anthropic 90 minutes to comply. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last April, one of the most widely-shared studies about AI in education got pulled from a Nature journal. If you’d seen the original headlines — “ChatGPT boosts student learning!” — you probably felt either validated or annoyed, depending on your stance. But the retraction tells a more important story than the original study ever did, and it’s one that anyone using AI tools should understand. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I used to tell people that $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus was the best money I spend on tools. Last week, Google cut its AI Plus plan to $4.99 a month — and doubled the storage. That changes the conversation. What just happened Google dropped Google AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and bumped the included storage from 200GB to 400GB. For five bucks a month, you get Gemini Advanced, video generation via Omni Flash, Google Flow, and NotebookLM — Google’s AI research assistant that turns your documents into podcast-style summaries. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I asked ChatGPT about a weird chest tightness I’d been having. It told me it was probably anxiety and suggested breathing exercises. It wasn’t anxiety. It was a pulled intercostal muscle — annoying but harmless — but the point stuck with me: the AI had no way to know which one it was, and it confidently gave me an answer anyway. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. You paste a prompt. The AI returns three paragraphs that sound like every LinkedIn post you’ve ever scrolled past. Generic opener. Vague advice. A closing line about “leveraging synergies.” You close the tab and think the tool is broken. It’s probably not the model. It’s the input. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. ChatGPT is fine. It was the first AI most people tried, and for a long time it was the only serious option. That’s not true anymore. In 2026, there are at least seven tools that match ChatGPT in some areas and beat it in others. The question isn’t “should I switch?” — it’s “which tool fits the specific thing I’m trying to do right now?” ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’re using ChatGPT for work — writing drafts, brainstorming, organizing ideas, building automations — your account contains more of your thinking than your email does. And most people protect it with nothing more than a password they’ve reused somewhere else. OpenAI just made it significantly harder for someone to break into your ChatGPT account. On April 30th, they launched a program called Advanced Account Security and partnered with Yubico, the company that makes those small physical security keys you may have seen tech people wear on their keychains. The setup takes about five minutes. Here’s exactly what it does and whether you should bother. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI just made ChatGPT’s image generation feature available to everyone. Not just Plus subscribers. Not just developers. Everyone. If you’ve been on the fence about trying AI, this is the moment that removes most of the friction. Here’s why this matters more than people realize: until now, using AI meant typing words and getting words back. Useful, sure. But abstract. Now you type a sentence and get a picture. That’s a completely different experience. It turns AI from a “tech tool” into something that feels like magic — and it’s free. ...