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ChatGPT Astra Is the AI Employee I Was Waiting For

2026-09-1159:27

Send us Fan Mail I've switched from Claude Code to Codex. After a week using OpenAI's Astra model in our business, it's become the tool I reach for first. This week, it rebuilt one of our sales pages inside an awkward drag-and-drop editor with just one round of feedback. But Gael and I haven't had exactly the same experience. In this episode we break down: → Why I switched to Codex for everyday business work → What happened when we put Astra to work on sales pages and 3D design → Where comp...

ChatGPT Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which AI Should You Actually Pay For?

2026-09-0456:42

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI finally released Astra last night, sort of. They announced it, then told almost everyone they can't have it until the weekend. Some people did get early access though, and what they've done with it is worth a look. One handed it a floor plan and got back a photoreal interior render. Another had it prep an entire video edit in Final Cut in three and a half minutes. So we lined it up against Claude Fable 5.1, which also shipped this week, on the things that actually mat...

You're Using the Wrong AI Model for Writing

2026-08-2859:33

Send us Fan Mail A year ago everyone said Claude was the best AI model for writing, so that's what most of us used and never questioned again. Then Gael built a blind test: two pieces of text, no model names, pick the one you like. My top three were all cheap Chinese open source models, and Claude's newest model got knocked out early. One of the winners writes a full SEO article for about 2 cents. Try our free AI writing blind test tool: https://www.authorityhacker.com/tools/ai-writing-...

Grok Bot Explained: AI Employees With Their Own PC

2026-08-2150:18

Send us Fan Mail rok Bot landed this week and a surprising number of people have already switched to it. Always-on AI agents, each with their own computer in the cloud, that you talk to like colleagues in Slack. It's the closest thing yet to a plug and play AI employee. It's also $200 a month minimum, you can't bring your own API key, and once you've built your setup on it you're locked in. So we put it up against Hermes, the open source agent that does most of the same job for a fraction of ...

Google Can Now Accurately Detect Your AI Content

2026-08-1450:24

Send us Fan Mail If AI writes your content, that content is now traceable. The EU's watermarking law came into effect this month, and Claude is already leaving a hidden signature in every piece of text it generates. It's not hidden characters you can strip out. It's the word choices themselves. So even if you copy and paste the text, the signature survives. SEOs are panicking that Google will use this to penalize AI content. In this episode we break down: → How the watermark hides in word c...

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Authority Hacker Podcast – AI & Automation for Small biz & Marketers