At Work.
Models, tools, and useful ways to put them to work.
OCT 29, 2026
How I Built a Murder Mystery Game With a Team of Claude Agents
A team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents wrote, cast, voiced, built and tested a browser murder mystery over eight days. Here is every step, every version, what went wrong and what it cost.
Pat Simmons
OCT 29, 2026
Are Your Long Claude Prompts Worth It? We Cut Them Down to Find Out
We ran three everyday work prompts on Claude Opus 5.5 three ways (long, trimmed and bare), 27 runs in all. Here's which instructions changed nothing and which ones still earn their place.
AI for Mortals Staff
OCT 29, 2026
Gemini Can Now Edit the Files It Makes for You
Gemini now opens the PDFs, Docs, spreadsheets and slide decks it makes right in the chat, where you can type your own changes or highlight a part and ask Gemini to redo it. It works on the web and, for PDFs, in the phone app.
Pat Simmons
OCT 29, 2026
OpenAI Doubles Usage on ChatGPT Pro Plans
OpenAI doubled the Work and Codex allowance on its $100 and $500 ChatGPT Pro plans and called off a cut to the $200 plan. Here's what changes on each plan, who actually gets more, and how to stretch the new allowance.
Pat Simmons
OCT 28, 2026
How to Teach Claude Your Writing Style From Your Own Edits
Set up Claude Code and a free private GitHub folder so every edit you make becomes a rule, and a second Claude checks each new draft against those rules before you see it.
AI for Mortals Staff
OCT 28, 2026
Google Unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, and Security Teams Get It First
Google's strongest model yet is built for long jobs that run for days and is meant to admit what it can't back up. Only a small group of cybersecurity teams can use it for now, with no date for everyone else.
Pat Simmons
OCT 28, 2026
Chrome Can Now Fill In Forms With Details From Your Gmail
If you've let Gemini into your Gmail, Chrome's autofill menu now suggests flight bookings, order numbers and tracking info pulled from your inbox as you fill out a form. Here's how it works and how to control what it reads.
Pat Simmons
OCT 28, 2026
You Can Now Text Your ChatGPT Dot
OpenAI's always-on Dot now lives in your phone's messages app over iMessage or RCS. Send it a task as a text, photo or voice note, and it texts you back on its own when something needs you.
Pat Simmons
OCT 27, 2026
Firefox Can Now Fill In Forms From Your Open Tabs
Firefox's Smart Window can now suggest answers for a web form using tabs you pick, like your LinkedIn page for a job application, and watch up to five pages for a sale or a new job listing.
Pat Simmons
OCT 27, 2026
Apple Puts an AI Assistant in Keynote, Pages and Numbers
Apple's new assistant designs slides in Keynote, drafts writing in Pages and builds charts in Numbers. It arrives in November for Apple Creator Studio subscribers at $12.99 a month, and the free versions of the apps don't get it.
Pat Simmons
OCT 27, 2026
ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send Your iCloud Mail
OpenAI added iCloud Mail and iCloud Calendar to ChatGPT on every plan, including Free. Here's how to connect them with an Apple app-specific password, what ChatGPT can do once they're in, and how to make it ask before it sends anything.
Pat Simmons
OCT 26, 2026
OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Terra Makes Your ChatGPT Plan Go Further
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is a faster, cheaper model for routine computer work like filling in forms and drafting proposals. OpenAI says your paid plan covers far more tasks with it in Work and Codex.
Pat Simmons
OCT 25, 2026
Moonshot Launches Kimi K3.1 Pro, Free to Try
Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro, which it says is much better at building apps and games, making 3D models and finance work, along with a 3D Make tool that turns a sketch or photo into a printable model. Anyone can try it free with limits, and paid plans start at $15 a month.
Pat Simmons
OCT 25, 2026
Grok Bot Can Now Save Your Logins and Cards
Grok Bot now has a Vault, where you save your logins, cards and contact information once and Grok Bot fills them in whenever it signs in or checks out for you. It never sees the passwords or card numbers, but it can charge a saved card without asking first.
Pat Simmons
OCT 22, 2026
Claude Stops Asking Before Every Step Next Week
Anthropic is switching Claude's web, desktop and phone apps to auto mode by default next week on Pro, Max and Team, so Claude stops asking you to approve each step of a task.
Pat Simmons
OCT 22, 2026
1Password Lets AI Agents Sign In Without Seeing Passwords
1Password launched 1Password for Agents, which lets assistants like Meta's Muse and Grok Bot log in to your accounts while 1Password types the password itself, so the agent never sees it.
Pat Simmons
OCT 21, 2026
Claude Duet Is Anthropic's Agent That Messages You First
Anthropic opened a waitlist for Claude Duet, a separate app where Claude watches the apps you connect, messages you when something needs you and keeps working on your tasks after you put your phone down.
Pat Simmons
OCT 20, 2026
Gemini Can Now Check Your Gmail on Android Auto, and Joins Google Maps on CarPlay
Gemini's Personal Intelligence setting is rolling out in cars, so it can answer questions about your own flights, appointments and photos out loud while you drive, and iPhone drivers in the US can now talk to Gemini in Google Maps on CarPlay.
Pat Simmons
OCT 20, 2026
ChatGPT Lets You Lock Private Chats Behind a PIN
OpenAI added Locked Chats to ChatGPT, a PIN-protected folder that keeps the conversations you pick out of your chat history and search, on every plan, Free included.
Pat Simmons
OCT 19, 2026
Notion Moves All of Its AI Onto Monthly Credits
Notion rebuilt its AI agents to work on one task for more than 24 hours, and moved every AI feature on its Business and Enterprise plans onto monthly credits.
Pat Simmons
OCT 19, 2026
ChatGPT Slides Lets Your Team Edit Decks Together
OpenAI added Slides to ChatGPT, so you can turn a chat, a file or an outline into a deck that you and your teammates edit and comment on at the same time.
Pat Simmons
OCT 15, 2026
Meta's Muse Spark Open Runs on Linked Mac Studios
Meta released Muse Spark Open, a Muse model anyone can download and run on their own computers, and worked with Apple so it runs on a few Mac Studios cabled together.
Pat Simmons
OCT 15, 2026
Gmail’s AI Inbox and Gmail Live Come to Work Accounts
Google is bringing AI Inbox, a Gmail page that turns your email into a to-do list, and Gmail Live, which answers questions about your email out loud, to US work accounts on paid Google Workspace plans.
Pat Simmons
OCT 15, 2026
ChatGPT Can Now Work Inside Your Chrome Tabs
OpenAI updated ChatGPT's free Chrome extension so ChatGPT can read the tabs you have open and, when you hand it a task, click around in them for you.
Pat Simmons
OCT 14, 2026
Google Play Now Installs Apps You Build With AI
Describe an Android app in plain words in Google AI Studio and install it on your own phone through Google Play, with just your regular Google account.
Pat Simmons
OCT 14, 2026
Amex Adds a Safety Check for AI Agent Purchases
American Express published Intent Intelligence, a way to record exactly what you asked an AI agent to buy and check the purchase against it before the charge goes on your Amex card.
Pat Simmons
OCT 13, 2026
Grok, Cursor and X Premium Now Come in One Plan, From $8 a Month
SpaceXSI's new X Subscription puts Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium on one bill and one shared usage pool, in tiers from $8 to $200 a month.
Pat Simmons
OCT 13, 2026
Google's Gemini 4 Argon Is Now in the Gemini App for Paying Subscribers
Google's most capable model is rolling out in the Gemini app and AI Mode for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, built to take a big job from start to finish.
Pat Simmons
OCT 12, 2026
Muse Wonder: No-Hype Full Review & Testing
Meta's new frontier model, run as Muse Wonder Full against Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra on the same four builds, with the tokens, cost and time of every run.
Pat Simmons
OCT 12, 2026
Meta's Muse Wonder Model Is Headed to Its Muse App
Meta's most capable model is built for long, multi-step jobs and remembers what you told it before. It comes to the Muse app first for people on the $20 and $100 plans.
Pat Simmons
OCT 11, 2026
Microsoft Puts Word, Excel and PowerPoint Inside Copilot
Office in Copilot opens a real Word, Excel or PowerPoint file beside your Copilot chat, starting with companies in Microsoft's Frontier early-access program.
Pat Simmons
OCT 11, 2026
Grok Bot Gets Its Own Email Address
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot can now claim its own @mail.grokbot.com inbox to sign up for services, contact businesses and schedule meetings for you.
Pat Simmons
OCT 11, 2026
Anthropic Adds a Rule Against Abusing Claude
Anthropic's yearly rules update bans sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude starting November 12, and spells out when a person has to check Claude's work.
Pat Simmons
OCT 9, 2026
I Tested FilmCraft, the Free Premiere Pro Clone, Then Had Claude Fix It
FilmCraft is a free, open-source clone of Premiere Pro. I tested it live as a long-time Premiere editor, then forked it and had Claude fix the bugs and add text-based editing.
Pat Simmons
OCT 8, 2026
Claude's Docs, Slides and Design Are Now Free
Anthropic took the beta label off Claude's docs, slide decks and designs and opened them to every plan, Free included, plus two new paid tools: Dashboards and Motion.
Pat Simmons
OCT 8, 2026
Grok Bot Can Now Search and Watch X for You
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot can now search, read and keep watch on X with no extra setup, and it's starting to run on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5.
Pat Simmons
OCT 7, 2026
GPT-6 in ChatGPT: Which Model You Get on Every Plan, and How Astra Did in My Tests
ChatGPT's Chat tab now runs on GPT-6 on every plan: Sol for paid plans, Luna for Free and Go, and Astra behind Pro's top reasoning option. Answers can also include charts, maps and small tools you can tap and use.
Pat Simmons
OCT 7, 2026
I Tested OpenAI's Decisions API on 7 Real Use Cases
I built seven things with OpenAI's new Decisions API, from an AI that plays a first-person shooter to voice control for my Mac. Here are the prompts, the real speed and cost numbers, and demos you can try.
Pat Simmons
OCT 6, 2026
Claude Now Works Inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides
Anthropic released a beta add-on that puts Claude in a sidebar inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, where it reads the file you have open and edits it in place.
Pat Simmons
OCT 6, 2026
ChatGPT Tests Picture Ads for Free and Go Users
OpenAI will start testing picture ads in the US later this month on ChatGPT's Free and Go plans, shown while you wait on an image you asked for.
Pat Simmons
OCT 5, 2026
OpenAI Promises 28 Days of ChatGPT and Codex Upgrades
OpenAI's head of ChatGPT and Codex says his team will ship one clear improvement every day for four weeks, or reset everyone's usage on a day it can't. Day one made the models about 50% faster.
Pat Simmons
OCT 5, 2026
Everything OpenAI Announced at DevDay 2026, Plus the 28 Days of Codex Resets
OpenAI shipped 25 things at DevDay 2026. Here's what each one is, who gets it and what it costs, plus every Codex usage reset Tibo Sottiaux posted through day 25 (October 29), October 14 included.
Pat Simmons
OCT 5, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 Built Me a Pipeline That Turns Every Build Into a 4K Demo and an X Draft
When a post goes up on AI for Mortals, the pipeline records each build in 4K, writes the X post, and saves it as a draft.
Pat Simmons
OCT 4, 2026
ChatGPT Adds Virtual Try-On for Clothes
OpenAI rolled out a Try On button in ChatGPT's shopping results worldwide, which shows clothes and accessories on a photo of you.
Pat Simmons
OCT 4, 2026
Make Claude Code Work Your Way With Mods
Claude Code, Anthropic's app that builds software by writing and running code on your computer as you describe what you want, now supports mods: small add-ons that change how it behaves or what it shows you.
Pat Simmons
OCT 4, 2026
ChatGPT Finances Opens to Free Users in the US
OpenAI is opening Finances, ChatGPT's personal-money dashboard, to users on its Free and Go plans in the US after months as a paid-plan feature, on web, iOS and Android.
Pat Simmons
SEP 30, 2026
I Gave OpenAI's Dots Real Jobs for a Day
I set up OpenAI's always-on agent and handed it my shopping, a Montreal trip and my AI agents. Here is what worked, what broke and whether it's worth Pro.
Pat Simmons
SEP 28, 2026
I rebuilt a $5M/month app with Claude Opus 5.5
Notability, rebuilt from prompts, running on my iPad. Here is every prompt, the repo, and both ways to get it onto a device.
Pat Simmons
SEP 9, 2026
I Gave GPT-6 Astra Blender for Three Days. Here Is What It Built and What It Cost.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, my own office, and a product page for a $20,000 robot. Three builds, 54 hours of unattended Blender, and the token receipts for all of it.
Pat Simmons
AUG 20, 2026
Free Wispr Flow Alternative: How I Built Murmur With Claude Code
Murmur is a free, open-source Mac dictation app I built with Claude Code in two prompts. It transcribes on your own Mac, and in my side-by-side test with Wispr Flow the gap in speed and accuracy was marginal.
Pat Simmons
JUL 26, 2026
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, and it runs at half the price of Fable 5, its most powerful model.
Pat Simmons
JUL 20, 2026
Fable 5 Becomes Permanent on Claude Max, and Drops Off Pro
Anthropic ended five weeks of moving deadlines: Fable 5 is now a permanent Max perk, and Pro users move to credits.
Pat Simmons
JUL 20, 2026
Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8, Another Giant Open Model From China
Days after Kimi K3, Alibaba showed off a 2.4-trillion-parameter model it claims trails only Claude's best, with open weights coming.
Pat Simmons
JUL 15, 2026
How to Get the Most Out of the New ChatGPT App
OpenAI rebuilt ChatGPT into a work app and folded Codex into it. Here is what it does and how to actually use it.
Pat Simmons
JUL 14, 2026
How to Get the Most Out of Fable 5
Fable 5 might be the best model out there, and the easiest to burn through. Here's how I get more out of it.
Pat Simmons
JUL 12, 2026
Anthropic Extends Free Fable 5 Access Another Week
Paid plans keep Fable 5 through July 19, and Claude Code users just got 50% higher weekly limits.
Pat Simmons
JUL 10, 2026
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Models Land in ChatGPT, Cheaper and Faster
The Sol, Terra, and Luna models that spent weeks under a government hold are now live for paying ChatGPT users.
Pat Simmons
JUL 10, 2026
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 Takes On the Top AI Models at a Fraction of the Price
Mark Zuckerberg broke a three-year silence on X to launch Meta's new agentic coding model, and it's cheap and already inside Meta AI.
Pat Simmons
JUL 10, 2026
ChatGPT Work Is OpenAI's Answer to Claude Cowork
The new agent, built on GPT-5.6 and Codex, takes action across your apps and files and can work a project for hours before handing it back.
Pat Simmons
JUL 8, 2026
OpenAI's GPT-Live Gives ChatGPT a Voice That Listens While You Talk
The new voice model behind ChatGPT can listen and speak at once, so it stops cutting you off, rolling out globally now.
Pat Simmons
JUL 8, 2026
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Goes Public Worldwide This Thursday
The three GPT-5.6 models held behind a US government preview since late June open to everyone, worldwide, this Thursday.
Pat Simmons
JUL 7, 2026
Claude Cowork Now Works While Your Laptop's Closed
Anthropic's delegate-your-work agent now runs on the web and your phone, and keeps going in the background even when your laptop is closed.
Pat Simmons
JUL 7, 2026
Claude Fable 5 Stays Free on Paid Plans Through July 12
The free window was set to close tonight, but Anthropic pushed it out five more days before Fable 5 flips to metered pricing.
Pat Simmons
JUL 5, 2026
The New Claude Fable 5 Feels Weaker to Coders, and a Safety Filter Is Why
The relaunched model feels gutted to developers, and the likely cause is an overzealous new guardrail bumping their requests to an older model.
Pat Simmons
JUL 1, 2026
Claude Fable 5 Is Back
Here are the details they left out when this was covered yesterday:
Pat Simmons
JUN 30, 2026
Claude Fable 5 Is Coming Back Today
The government lifted the export ban that took Fable 5 offline, and Anthropic starts restoring access today.
Pat Simmons
JUN 30, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5 Plans and Runs Tasks On Its Own, for Less
Anthropic's cheaper, faster Claude just got good enough to handle work that recently needed its most expensive models.
Pat Simmons
JUN 30, 2026
NotebookLM Can Now Turn Your Notes Into a 60-Second Video
Google's research assistant now spins your documents into a short, narrated vertical video that explains the key ideas.
Pat Simmons
JUN 30, 2026
Cursor's iPhone App Runs Your Coding Agents From Anywhere
The AI coding tool just shipped a native iPhone app, so you can start and steer your agents from anywhere away from your desk.
Pat Simmons
JUN 30, 2026
DeepSeek Is Adding Surge Pricing to Its Next AI Model
The Chinese lab behind the cheapest AI around will start charging double during its busiest hours when its new model lands in July.
Pat Simmons
JUN 28, 2026
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Is Here, but Only a Handful Can Use It
OpenAI's next flagship launched as a limited preview that, at the government's request, only a small group of approved partners can touch.
Pat Simmons
JUN 28, 2026
DeepSeek Raises $7.4 Billion to Keep Pace With Anthropic
The Chinese open-source lab that shook the AI world last year just raised a record $7.4 billion, its first outside funding ever.
Pat Simmons
JUN 25, 2026
At OpenAI, Even Legal and Recruiting Switched From Chat to Codex
OpenAI's own usage data shows every department, even Legal and Recruiting, now hands long tasks to its Codex agent instead of chatting with a model.
Pat Simmons
JUN 24, 2026
Notion Lets You Assign Tasks to Claude and Cursor Like Teammates
Notion's new External Agents invite outside AI agents like Claude and Cursor into your shared workspace as named members, so you can hand them a task and @-mention them like coworkers, for now in a waitlisted alpha.
Pat Simmons
JUN 24, 2026
Gemini 3.5 Flash Can Now Drive Your Browser, Phone, and Desktop
Google built native computer use into its fast, low-cost Gemini model, so developers can hand an AI a screen and a goal and let it click, type, and navigate, with safety checks built in and the prompt-injection defense left opt-in.
Pat Simmons
JUN 24, 2026
Figma Pulls AI Generation, Motion, and Live Code Into One Canvas
At its Config 2026 conference, Figma added AI image generation, a real animation timeline, and importable working code to its canvas, so a designer or PM can take an idea from prompt to near-shippable mockup without leaving the file.
Pat Simmons
JUN 23, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Tag Turns Claude Into a Slack Teammate You Delegate To
Anthropic put Claude inside Slack as a tagged teammate you can delegate real work to.
Pat Simmons
JUN 22, 2026
Stripe Built a Directory So AI Agents Can Find Businesses to Pay
Stripe quietly shipped a searchable list that lets AI agents discover services and pay for them on their own, an early piece of the so-called agent economy.
Pat Simmons
JUN 22, 2026
Hermes Is Becoming the Default AI Agent
Nous Research's Hermes has taken the top daily-usage spot on OpenRouter, and the people building with it keep citing one reason: it breaks less.
Pat Simmons
JUN 18, 2026
Codex Can Now Learn a Task by Watching You Do It Once
Record yourself doing a fiddly, repeating task once, like filing an expense report, and Codex writes itself a reusable recipe it can run again whenever you ask.
Pat Simmons
JUN 18, 2026
OpenAI Hires One of Washington's Top AI Policy Advisers
Dean Ball, who helped write the White House's AI rules, is joining OpenAI to lead policy, just as rival Anthropic feuds with the same government.
Pat Simmons
JUN 18, 2026
Microsoft's Copilot Cowork Goes Public, Powered by Anthropic's Models
The assistant that runs a whole task for you is out of preview and switched on across Microsoft 365, even though it leans on the same Anthropic models as the rival it's chasing.
Pat Simmons
JUN 18, 2026
Midjourney's Surprise Reveal Is a Full-Body Scanner in a Spa
The AI image company says its new “Ultrasonic CT” can scan your whole body in 60 seconds, and the skeptics are already saying Theranos.
Pat Simmons
JUN 18, 2026
At the G7, AI's Leaders Pushed to Wall China Off
Behind closed doors, the heads of Anthropic and DeepMind reportedly urged Western leaders to keep frontier AI and chips out of China's hands.
Pat Simmons
JUN 16, 2026
China's GLM-5.2 goes open, and it's catching the best closed models
Zhipu released GLM-5.2's open weights today, and on coding it comes within a few points of Anthropic's flagship.
Pat Simmons
JUN 16, 2026
SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion to take on the AI giants
Days after its blockbuster IPO, SpaceX is buying the AI coding startup Cursor, and the real weapon is its mountain of compute.
Pat Simmons
JUN 15, 2026
AI phone voices just got fast enough to fool you
Cartesia's new voice models are hyper-realistic enough to compete with a human call center.
Pat Simmons
JUN 15, 2026
Europe's only big AI lab is raising €3 billion to catch up
Mistral is in talks for a round that would value the French company at €20 billion, the continent's main answer to America's and China's AI giants.
Pat Simmons
JUN 15, 2026
A lawsuit says Anthropic's $200 Claude plan delivers far less than promised
A Washington customer is suing for class-action refunds, claiming Anthropic's priciest Claude plans hand over a fraction of the usage they advertise, and that buyers can't even measure what they're getting.
Pat Simmons
JUN 14, 2026
Siri's New Brain
Apple finally showed off the smarter Siri it promised two years ago, and the room barely reacted.
Pat Simmons
JUN 14, 2026
The job AI was supposed to kill now pays six figures and can't find people
Everyone said AI would erase court reporting. Instead it pays into six figures, and there still aren't enough people to do it.
Pat Simmons
JUN 14, 2026
US government orders Anthropic to shut off its two newest AI models
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, just three days after they launched.
Pat Simmons
MAY 31, 2026
ChatGPT now gives long chats a clickable table of contents
When a quick question turns into a 40-message thread, you can finally jump back to the part you need instead of scrolling for it.
Pat Simmons
MAY 31, 2026
Anthropic's new top model is built for the long, multi-step jobs
Claude Opus 4.8 is steadier across long tasks. If you don't write code, there's nothing to do today — and that's fine.
Pat Simmons
MAY 31, 2026
Claude's new usage limits will catch you mid-project
The heaviest users are burning through a week's allowance in a few sessions — and most of them didn't see it coming.
Pat Simmons
MAY 31, 2026
Google's new AI works while your laptop is closed
Gemini Spark runs your small tasks in the background, 24/7 — but it's paid, U.S.-only, and early.
Pat Simmons
