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OpenAI launches new $100 per month Pro tier for heavy Codex users
OpenAI has introduced a new $100 monthly Pro subscription tier aimed at heavy users of its Codex coding tool.
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- OpenAI ended a temporary 2x Codex usage promotion for Plus subscribers, prompting a usage rebalance.
- Demand from power users for an intermediate subscription tier between $20 and $200 plans.
- Competitive pressure from Anthropic's Claude Max tier priced at $100 per month.
- Provides a more affordable, flexible subscription option for heavy Codex users.
- Optimizes usage limits to better match different user needs and workloads.
- Positions OpenAI competitively against other AI coding tool providers like Anthropic.
Meta launches Muse Spark, a new proprietary AI model marking a shift in its AI strategy
Coverage discusses speculative scenarios; treat as market chatter and see linked sources.
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- Muse Spark is the first release from Meta's newly formed Superintelligence Labs, signaling fresh AI ambitions.
- The model's launch coincides with growing competition in frontier AI models from major tech companies.
- Public availability of Muse Spark as a free model allows broad user access and benchmarking against rivals.
- Muse Spark represents a major strategic shift for Meta from open-source to proprietary AI models.
- Integration with Meta's social media platforms enables context-rich AI responses, enhancing user experience.
- Strong benchmark performance positions Meta competitively against leading AI developers like OpenAI and Google.
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Why opinion on AI is so divided
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here . In an industry that doesn’t stand still, Stanford’s AI Index, an annual roundup of key results and trends , is a chance to take a breath. (It’s a marathon, not a sprint , after all.) This year’s report , which dropped today, is full of striking stats. A lot of
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I reduced my token usage by 178x in Claude Code!!
Okay so, I took the leaked Claude Code repo, around 14.3M tokens total. Queried a knowledge graph, got back \~80K tokens for that query! **14.3M / 80K ≈ 178x.** Nice. I have officially solved AI, now you can use 20$ claude for 178 times longer!! Wait a min, JK hahah! This is also basically how *everyone* is explaining “token efficiency” on the internet right now. Take total possible context, divid
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Your agents pass every test individually. The pipeline fails silently.
I watched multiple multistep workflows fail 84% of the time. These were not crashes. They were failures. Failures to match what I was expecting. The model produced output every single run. Clean, well-formed, confident output. But they were 'consistently' wrong. Yes, now you might think that I'm not prompting well enough, but prompting well enough means babysitting AI or handholding every single s
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Some new ideas for AI development [P]
Would like to share some systems I have been working on in different areas of AI. # Language It would be nice if AI had a way to invent their own words. The idea is that they can come up with a new concept and then hash it. Then they can send the hash to other agents or use it to improve their thinking. Example: "Run a PreMortem#86f3 on this Plan#18a7: assume it has failed, invoke RecursiveRootCau
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AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry
The AI company Anthropic released a 244-page "system card" (PDF) this week describing its newest model, Claude Mythos. The model is "our most capable frontier model to date," the company says, and supposedly is so good that Anthropic has decided "not to make it generally available." (The company claims that Mythos is too good at finding unknown cybersecurity bugs, and so the model is only being re
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DRBENCHER: Can Your Agent Identify the Entity, Retrieve Its Properties and Do the Math?
arXiv:2604.09251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents increasingly interleave web browsing with multi-step computation, yet existing benchmarks evaluate these capabilities in isolation, creating a blind spot in assessing real-world performance. We introduce DRBENCHER, a synthetic benchmark generator for questions that require both browsing and computation. It enforces four criteria:
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Anthropic's mysterious Mythos AI threatens to upend the infosec world
Or it's a bunch of pre-IPO hype. Either way, we're giving it the once-over on this week's episode Kettle Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. …
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MiniMax M2.7 Advances Scalable Agentic Workflows on NVIDIA Platforms for Complex AI Applications
The release of MiniMax M2.7 adds enhancements to the popular MiniMax M2.5 model, built for agentic harnesses,... The release of MiniMax M2.7 adds enhancements to the popular MiniMax M2.5 model, built for agentic harnesses, and other complex use cases in fields such as reasoning, ML research workflows, software, engineering, and office work. The open weights release of MiniMax M2.7 is now available
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Microsoft's Windows Insider Program is no longer a confusing mess
Did Microsoft finally fix its preview program for Windows 11? Here's what's changing - including one upgrade I didn't see coming.
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Crazy AI race
All tech companies are engaged in frantic technological races out of fear of being overtaken by rivals and eliminated from the industry. They strive for outstanding results in AI training to boost corporate value. Locked in this mutually competitive dynamic, no one is willing to pause and reflect on how to make AI, and even AGI, safer. This leads to a grim scenario: an extremely intelligent, self-
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The Gemini app can now generate interactive simulations and models.
Text reading 'Visualize how fractals work' written into an AI prompt box
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Tried running LLMs locally to save API costs… ended up waiting 13 minutes for ONE response 🤡
But here’s the weird part (and why I’m posting): If I ask the same question directly through the Ollama terminal, it’s actually fast 👀 But when I integrate that same local model into Claude code … it becomes painfully slow. I’m clearly missing something here. Is it how I’m calling the model? Context size? Streaming vs non-streaming? Some config issue? Newbie to local LLMs.. would really appreciate
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TeamLLM: A Human-Like Team-Oriented Collaboration Framework for Multi-Step Contextualized Tasks
arXiv:2604.06765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, multi-Large Language Model (LLM) frameworks have been proposed to solve contextualized tasks. However, these frameworks do not explicitly emulate human team role division, which may lead to a single perspective, thereby weakening performance on multi-step contextualized tasks. To address this issue, we propose TeamLLM, a human-like Team-Ori
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Google makes it easy to deepfake yourself
YouTube Shorts is rolling out a new AI-powered feature giving creators an easy way to realistically clone themselves on camera. The launch, hinted at earlier this year , reflects the platform's fraught relationship with AI-generated content, adding more generative features while struggling to contain AI slop , deepfake scams, and impersonations. YouTube says the new tool will let users create a di
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