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Within a week, OpenAI tested what ChatGPT users interpreted as ads in its output, but someone from OpenAI later clarified weren’t actually ads, and Google announced their ads will be going live in 2026. Many are disappointed, few are surprised. It’s widely known monthly and yearly subscriptions aren’t covering research, development, inference, and operating costs, so advertising is an obvious and logical revenue stream. Now that AI ads are upon us, let’s talk about them.

When AI burst into public awareness in 2023, intrepid developers immediately saw the potential to apply AI to something it’s really good at: managing text. **Pricing: Free for individual use, $10/month for collaborative features ** Notion is a mature app with a lot of powerful features, which for some can also be its downside. For many, it’s distracting and they end up spending more time building the perfect “Notion productivity system” rather than actually getting…

If you’re excited to run open source LLMs like GPT-OSS, Qwen3, and Gemma on your laptop, desktop, or phone as a learning experience, or just for the technerdy coolness of running actual AI locally, on your own device, you’ll have a great time as long as your expectations are aligned with how AI runs on consumer hardware. But, if you’re hoping it will be like having your own Claude 4.5 or ChatGPT 4.2 running locally,…

To access the latest frontier AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, and Deepseek, you could pay $100 or more in monthly subscriptions. A cost-saving alternative is to use an AI chat interface — sometimes referred to as a “chatbot UI” or “LLM frontend” (there doesn’t appear to be an agreed upon naming convention). These apps allow you to connect to LLMs via their APIs. This way, you pay only for your actual usage. This approach…