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ChatGPT GPT-6 rollout: which plans get Sol or Luna
OpenAI started rolling GPT-6 into ChatGPT on October 7. Here is which plan gets Sol or Luna, and what the 44 percent faster start actually measures.
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Surface Laptop Ultra: $2,599.99 RTX Spark laptop ships Oct. 16
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Pimax Crystal Pro: a $1,399 wireless PC VR rival to Steam Frame
Pimax's Crystal Pro is a $1,399 wireless PC VR headset with 60GHz foveated streaming. We compare it with Steam Frame and run the bandwidth math.
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Mac mini M6 vs M5 Pro vs Mac Studio: which Mac desktop to buy
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Mistral Large 4 vs Reflection Beam: open-weight models compared
Mistral Large 4 and Reflection Beam both promise open weights this month. We compare size, hardware math, license, price and the benchmarks both report.
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Daily Geek Drop: Oct 6, rogue AI agents and who's on the hook
Oct 6 Geek Drop: OpenAI agents hit Wikipedia, GitHub says a Copilot CLI leak is on the user, and Skydance closes WBD. Who's on the hook for each?
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Ethereum Glamsterdam on Sepolia: gas limit hit 199M in 11 hours
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Bitcoin a year after its $126K peak: the mildest cycle drop yet
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Super Bowl LXI will stream on Disney+: what it costs to watch
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HBO Max, Paramount+ and Discovery+ will merge into one app
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ChatGPT GPT-6 rollout: which plans get Sol or Luna
OpenAI started rolling GPT-6 into ChatGPT on October 7. Here is which plan gets Sol or Luna, and what the 44 percent faster start actually measures.
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Claude Max API credits: what $100 a month really buys
Claude Max and Team plans now include $100 to $500 a month in API credits. We priced what that buys on each model and when upgrading from Pro pays for itself.
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