AI News & Guides
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If They’re Under 13, Don’t Put Them on ChatGPT. Here’s How to Do Stories and Games.
ChatGPT for Teens is 13 to 17, not a kids mode. If they are under 13, skip the general chatbot. Do stories and games with you in the chair.
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ChatGPT for Teens Is On Today. Here’s What Parents Can Actually Control.
ChatGPT for Teens rolled out today for ages 13 to 17. If the account looks under 18, they get it without a new signup. Here is what flips by default, and what you can set if you link accounts.
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Answer Every Customer Message in Ten Minutes. Paste the Thread. Send. Stop.
The listing is not the work. The replies are. Paste every open thread into a free chat, send one honest reply each, and stop in ten minutes.
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Sell One Thing You Already Own Tonight. Photo, Voice Memo, Listing.
You don’t need a store. Photograph one unused object, talk for 30 seconds, and let a free chat write the listing. First $20 to $100 is the win, not a brand.
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The 17GB Model That Runs on a Laptop. Turn xhigh Off First.
Qwen 3.8 27B dropped Friday as Apache 2.0 weights you can run on a laptop. Download the real Qwen org repo, then turn the default xhigh reasoning off before a toy prompt eats 20 minutes.
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DeepSeek’s New Clock Just Went Live. Here’s When It Gets Expensive.
DeepSeek’s peak and off-peak API rates flipped live Sunday at noon ET. US work hours are cheap. Overnight batch jobs are not. Cache hits are no longer nearly free.
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ChatGPT Will Remember What You Did on Your Mac. Here’s How Computer History Actually Works.
ChatGPT’s new Computer History feature on Mac builds a timeline from clicks and keystrokes, not screenshots. Here is who can turn it on, what to exclude, and the two risks OpenAI actually names.
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Claude Is About to Watermark Your Drafts. Here’s What That Actually Means.
Future Claude models will hide a watermark in low-stakes word choices, not in extra characters. Here is what that mark can prove, what it cannot, and how it differs from Gemini’s hideable sparkle.
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The 4-Hour Friday: Shut Down So Monday Starts Clean
Friday is for making Monday cheap. Four hours: close your loops, do one real thing, then dump, calendar, one weekend agent job, and a refuse list. The lid closes at lunch-plus.
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