AI agents are broken. Is GPT-5 really the answer?
As 2025 dawned, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was promoting two developments he insisted would transform our lives. One, of course, was GPT-5 — a long-anticipated major upgrade to the Large Language Model (LLM) that powered ChatGPT’s rise to tech world superstardom. The other? AI Agents that don’t just answer your queries like ChatGPT, but actually […]
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Tesla, Kia EV range claims fail to hold up in independent testing
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ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. Gemini: Which AI chatbot should you use in 2025?
AI assistants from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are getting super-smart super fast. New models, agentic features, and new tools now drop on a weekly basis, making AI chatbots more capable and more helpful. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok are some of the biggest and most famous, and easily the three that get the most […]