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Short answer: ChatGPT can now transcribe and summarize audio files you upload, but only on paid plans. Free accounts don’t get it. Files can be up to 512 MB. MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC and a few other formats work. The most common failure is a video file. An MP4 or WebM with a video track…
Short answer: Meta released Muse Wonder on October 12, 2026. It is not free. In the Muse app you need the $20 or $100 monthly plan. Developers can call it through the Meta Model API at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. That’s the same list price as Claude Opus…
Short answer: Since October 7, 2026, GPT-6 in ChatGPT can answer with charts, buttons, and mini tools. OpenAI calls it Intelligent UI. You can’t fully switch it off. On the web, turning off Settings → Layout and visuals cuts it back. For true plain text, say so at the start of the chat. Or use…
Short answer: A Google search ad for “claude mac” has been sending people to a fake Claude download page. The page shows Anthropic’s real install command. Its Copy button puts a different one on your clipboard. If you pasted that into Terminal, assume the Mac ran an unknown script. Disconnect it. Change your passwords from…
What changes and when: Anthropic published an updated Usage Policy on October 8, 2026. It takes effect November 12. Anthropic says most of it clarifies rules that already existed. For everyday Claude users, the visible addition is a ban on sustained, needless cruelty toward the model. Venting, pushback, and dark fiction are explicitly excluded. Builders…
Short answer: On October 9, 2026, OpenAI confirmed a bug in the ChatGPT Android app. Some content was replaced by the message “This content is unavailable in this version of the app.” The fix ships in the newest Android version. Older versions had to wait. OpenAI marked the incident resolved that night. If you still…
What’s going on: Microsoft is moving personal Copilot users into a merged, updated app. During that move, old chats can vanish from the sidebar for days. In most reports they aren’t deleted. You can confirm that by exporting your Copilot activity from the Microsoft privacy dashboard. Group Chats, Podcasts, and Deep Research reports are the…
Short answer: GPT-5.5 disappears from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex on October 14, 2026. Every plan is affected. The API is not. OpenAI’s own models page now says paid plans should move to GPT-6 Sol and Free or Go users to GPT-6 Luna. Ignore the older “GPT-5.6 Sol” advice from September. Fix your saved Codex…
Short answer: Claude Haiku 5.5 rejects several request shapes that Haiku 4.5 accepted. The usual culprits: budget_tokens thinking, a custom temperature or any top_k, and an assistant prefill. Each returns a 400 error. Switch thinking to {“type”: “adaptive”}. Drop the sampling parameters. End your messages with a user turn. Then recount tokens. The new tokenizer…
Short answer: Only if you’re in the EU, or if a developer switched it on. OpenAI said on October 5, 2026 that ChatGPT and Codex text for EU users will carry an invisible watermark called textGrain, rolling out over the following weeks on every plan. API customers anywhere can opt in. It’s off unless they…