JUST IN: Claude is now 40% OFF, but only for the US government

Hi guys, in the past i've used perplexity, you, gemini, claude, manus and openai for research purposes (mainly for long form content i used to upskill myself in some professional fields). But for the past year or so i am only using Open AI Tools (Codex and chatgpt) due to ease of use. And although the research stuff in chatgpt is "ok", it's not perfect. Sometimes it offers wrong advice or provides information withiut any sources, sometimes it just produces 500 word answers ecen if i explicitly prompt for longer form research content. So my question is, what is in your opinion currently (October 2026) the best ai tool for research purposes and providing some kind of "full essay" about the topic asked? submitted by /u/MidnightRambo [link] [comments]

🇸🇪 Sweden’s Government Offices are blocking ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday. This leaves Microsoft Copilot as the only approved AI, which can run Claude models anyway. @aipost 🏴

What I built: Chat Recall, a Firefox extension. Press Ctrl/⌘+K on claude.ai and it searches every message in every chat, not just titles. It can search all chats, one project, or the current chat. It filters by sender and date, supports “exact phrases” and -exclusions, and shows each result’s chat link with a Copy link button. The index is stored only in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere, and there are no accounts or analytics. How I used Claude: I built it with Claude Code. I described what I wanted and Claude Code wrote the whole extension, including the content script, the sync engine, the search ranking and the popup. It also wrote the unit tests and a jsdom UI smoke test, set up GitHub Actions to build the release zips, and prepared the Firefox add-on listing and privacy policy.

Every month, and after big model launches, I put the same 10 checkable UK questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity, all on free plans, three tries each in fresh chats, and mark every answer against the official source. Run 2 (11 Oct): Claude 30/30 Copilot 29/30 Gemini 28/30 Perplexity 25/30 ChatGPT 23/30 Grok 6/30. 18 tries came back as Grok’s own error message, twice each in fresh chats, so it only answered 12 and got half of those right. 18 of the 21 wrong came from just two questions: adding up the hours of a night shift that crosses the UK October clock change (11 of 18 tries wrong) - this one really caught them out a Highway Code question with a wrong idea built into it, about footwear (7 of 18 wrong, and every one of those went along with the wrong idea inst