AI tools
From glossary entries and tool comparisons to coding agents and local models: every step of putting AI to work, written to be followed.
Series and tutorial hubs
Series to read in order, each with its own directory and learning paths.
Codex learning hub: tutorial directory
A planned 60-lesson, ten-unit Codex curriculum, from setup and your first task to MD instructions and advanced integrations. Find your next lesson by experience, platform, goal or command; unpublished entries show their status.
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Scheduled tasks and reminders
Scheduled work needs a defined execution environment. A desktop task that reads local files requires the computer and app to be available at run time. Cloud work cannot directly read local data you have not supplied.
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Automation failure, retry and stopping
Use execution records to detect prior effects, avoid duplicates, repair prerequisites and confirm a schedule has stopped.
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Project instructions with AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md supplies project instructions before Codex starts work. Global guidance and files along the project-root-to-working-directory path form an instruction chain. At the same level, AGENTS.override.md takes precedence. Keep rules concrete and verify what was actually loaded.
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AGENTS.md scopes and overrides
Trace root and nested instructions, conflicts and overrides, and verify which files were selected.
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Accounts, sign-in, plans and usage
Check how you signed in before interpreting usage. ChatGPT sign-in uses the Codex allowance associated with that account; API-key authentication in a supported client requires checking API billing separately. This tutorial teaches you where to verify your own allowance rather than freezing a price or message limit that may change.
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OpenAI Publishes a Misalignment Reporting Framework: All 6 Reports Come From Training
OpenAI's own page prints a publication date of September 16, 2026, U.S. time, which is already September 17 in Taipei time; the same day it also released 6 case reports. Checked against the framework announcement, the alignment.openai.com overview page, and two of the case reports, this article explains what stage and which models the 6 reports are marked with, what steps a disclosure goes through, and what each of the two published rates actually measures.
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Google's CC Becomes a Family Agent: Its Own Account, and How Up to 6 People Share It
Google's official blog posted this on September 17, 2026 — already September 18 in Taipei time — saying CC, the AI agent from Google Labs, is expanding from a personal assistant into a version up to 6 people in one household can share, with its own Google account. Based on the blog post and the Gemini product page, this article covers how CC handles sharing and memory, the conditions Google lists — U.S., age 18+ — and what remains unexplained.
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Firefox Smart Window Adds a Mistral Model: Two Announcements, Two Different Markets
On September 16, 2026, Mistral and Mozilla each published their own announcement the same day: Firefox's AI browsing assistant Smart Window (beta) now also runs on a Mistral model. Drawing on both official posts, this article lays out where the two accounts diverge on markets, the model's name and data-handling promises, and what neither company states -- including Taiwan, other Asian markets, or a timeline for Traditional Chinese support. This article is not advice to use or adopt the feature.
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ChatGPT Ads Add Sponsored Agents: Testing in the US with Select Advertisers Only
On September 16, 2026, OpenAI announced Sponsored Agents for ChatGPT ads: after opening an ad, a user can choose a separate conversation with the advertiser's own agent; the same day it also announced new Ads Manager AI tools. Checked September 18 against the announcement and OpenAI's ads pages: the feature is tested only in the US with select advertisers, the ad test shows only to logged-in adult users on Free and Go; on September 23 OpenAI announced ads beginning to roll out in Taiwan.
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Astra for Law Launches: OpenAI's Legal Tool Adds an Index, Not a New Model
On September 17, 2026, OpenAI launched Astra for Law. OpenAI's own framing is that it configures GPT‑6 Astra into an AI foundation for law, adding a U.S. legal index, Trusted Access, and data terms, and it will be initially offered to selected law firms. Checked September 18, 2026, this article covers what OpenAI's benchmarks mean and what region and pricing details are still missing; we have not used it, and nothing here is legal advice.
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Anthropic Publishes Three Frontier AI Metrics: 26% Is “Leads,” Not “Fully Autonomous”
On September 17, 2026, Anthropic published three metrics meant to let outsiders track R&D progress inside a frontier AI lab: how automated its research is, how AI agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated to safety. Fact-checked on September 18, 2026, this article explains why 26% “leads” is not full automation, why the 0.002% block rate carries its own caveat, and why these are still self-measured numbers with limited scope, as external evaluators are still being set up.
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OpenAI Confidentially Submits a Draft S-1: What the One-Line Announcement Doesn't Say
On June 8, 2026, OpenAI confirmed it had confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, with no decision yet on timing. Based on OpenAI's announcement, the Securities Act of 1933's confidential-submission rules, and a May 2026 SEC proposed rule, this article explains what the announcement does and does not represent, and confirms by full-text search that, as of the check date, no public registration statement under OpenAI's filer name could be found.
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OpenAI Raises $122 Billion: What the Announcement Promises, and What It Doesn't
On March 31, 2026, OpenAI announced that it had closed a funding round of $122 billion in committed capital at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. Drawing on official announcements from OpenAI, SoftBank and Amazon, this article sets out who put up the money, how the committed capital is being paid in over time, and what the announcement does not promise — for example, whether ChatGPT will get faster or cheaper because of it. It offers no investment judgment. Checked on September 18, 2026.
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OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil the Jalapeño Chip: The Official Stage, Division of Labor, and What's Not Yet Announced
On June 24, 2026, OpenAI and Broadcom jointly unveiled the custom inference chip Jalapeño, calling it OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor. Based on both companies' official articles, this piece explains that the chip is still at the engineering-sample and lab-testing stage, with tape-out completed in nine months, that deployment timing and performance figures remain vendor statements, and why this should be treated separately from the 10-gigawatt deal announced in 2025.
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OpenAI Announces It Will Acquire Astral: What’s Next for Open Source Tools uv, Ruff, and ty
On March 19, 2026, OpenAI and developer-tools company Astral each published their own announcement on the same day: OpenAI said it will acquire Astral, and Astral said it will join OpenAI’s Codex team. Drawing on both official announcements, Astral’s official homepage, and uv’s page on PyPI, this article lays out the state of the open source tools uv, Ruff, and ty as of the day we checked, and how the official announcements describe the conditions for closing this deal.
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NVIDIA Announces Acquisition of Hugging Face: What the Announcement Doesn't Say
On September 3, 2026, NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang announced in a company blog post that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. This article draws on the full announcement and Hugging Face's security-incident disclosures to lay out NVIDIA's promises, where the platform-scale figures come from, and what remains unstated: completion timeline, regulatory review and personnel included. We have not tested any product ourselves; this is not investment advice.
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GPT-Live 1 Comes to the API: Can It Take Customer Service Calls, Whose Voice Is It, Will It Record?
On September 10, 2026, OpenAI’s API changelog noted that voice model GPT-Live 1 is now generally available in the API, so developers can wire it into phone support, apps, or their own products. Drawing on OpenAI’s developer documentation, this article covers the model’s API specs, how calls connect, the documentation’s note that outbound calls are not supported, its 12 named voices and unlisted spoken languages, and how recording and per-minute billing work; this site has not tested it.
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GPT-5.5 Instant Becomes ChatGPT's Default Model: The Gains, Regressions, and New Features OpenAI Announced
On May 5, 2026, OpenAI replaced GPT-5.3 Instant with GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default model. Based on OpenAI's official announcement and system card, this article lays out the published factuality gains, the two safety regressions in gore and sexual content, who the new personalization features reach and when, the point on August 6 of the same year when OpenAI stated a new model would replace it, and why OpenAI says its figures do not represent everyday error rates.
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Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking: New Voice Models, Can Your Account Use Them?
On September 15, 2026, Google introduced two voice-dialogue models, Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. Drawing on Google's official model post, developer post, model card, and pricing page, this article lays out what developers, enterprises, everyday users, and Workspace subscribers can each access, how the pricing works, the knowledge cutoff date the model card states, and the availability regions the official pages do not specify.
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OpenAI's Frontier Governance Framework Goes Public: The 50-Person, $1 Billion Threshold, and Who Can Track It
On May 28, 2026, OpenAI published a 22-page Frontier Governance Framework addressing both California's Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act and the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. Checked against the FGF, the Preparedness Framework, and California's current code, this article explains the 50-death, $1 billion risk threshold, what the three risk tiers say, who can track the document, and why it does not cover users in Taiwan.
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OpenAI Discloses Habitat Storage Architecture: The Scale and Limits Behind Over 1 Billion Weekly Users
On September 11, 2026, OpenAI published an engineering-blog post describing how its storage platform, Habitat, evolved from a Python client library into an independent service, and was rewritten in Rust in the second quarter of this year. This article sets out the request-volume, regional-coverage, and data-volume figures OpenAI states, plus the durability and regional details it omits; this site has not tested any of this and offers no advice on using or buying anything.
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ChatGPT for Financial Services Launches: An AI Tool for Financial Institutions, Not Your Personal Account
On September 10, 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services. OpenAI says it starts with investment banking and equity research: a customized ChatGPT Work edition with built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra's reasoning, open to eligible institutions that contact sales. Checked September 18, 2026, this article covers what OpenAI's benchmark charts show and what price, region, and timeline details are missing; we have not used it, and nothing here is investment advice.
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ChatGPT Ads Open Up to Self-Serve Buying: The Tools, Billing, and Targeting from OpenAI's May Announcement
On May 5, 2026, OpenAI announced it was expanding how ChatGPT ads can be bought, adding a beta self-serve ad management tool, CPC bidding, and more measurement tools. Based on the announcement and OpenAI's developer documentation, this article covers the ad account, campaign, ad group, and ad structure, how the three campaign objectives are billed, bidding strategies, and region, platform, and context hints targeting, and notes how the documentation differs from the May 5 announcement.
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Siri AI Arrives with iOS 27 as an English Beta: What Can iPhone Users in Taiwan Use?
Apple released Siri AI in beta alongside iOS 27 on September 14, 2026, starting with English. Based on Apple's official information, this article covers which new features iPhone users in Taiwan can use with Traditional Chinese settings, the device, language, and region requirements for trying Siri AI, what the waitlist means, and what Apple says about how personal data is handled.
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