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OpenAI is retiring custom GPTs, and its own help page puts the last day at December 11, 2026. Your instructions and files move to the replacement, called a plugin. Custom actions, conversations, share links and drafts do not. The dates have already moved once, and the chatbot on your website is a different thing entirely.
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Four companies shipped a flagship model in a single week at the start of September. If you use any of these tools for real work, nothing on your screen changed and nothing you had already built stopped running. The pressure to move showed up anyway, and moving has a price.
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A twenty dollar subscription and a two hundred dollar subscription now hand you the same artificial intelligence. The same models, the same tools, the same agent that goes off and does the work while you make coffee. The difference is not what you are allowed to do, it is how long you get to do it, and not one of these companies will tell you how long that is.
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DeepSeek has been giving its models away since January 2025, so the free part is not the news. What arrived this month is the piece that lets it work inside your computer instead of behind a chat window. I went looking because I wanted to use it myself, and the answer to "is it free" turned out to have two halves.
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From September 3, 2026 Suno caps how many songs you can download: seven for the life of a free account, twenty a month on Pro, sixty on Premier, applied to your whole library. It is also adding watermarking and fingerprinting so tracks stay identifiable as Suno-made after they leave the platform. What changes, what the terms mean, and what to do before the deadline.
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On 2 August, Europe began enforcing Article 50 of the AI Act. Chatbots must identify themselves, generated content must be marked, deepfakes must be labelled. What that means for the United States, for China, and for the countries with no way to check.
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Every AI assistant that can touch your real work has the same problem underneath: your calendar, your files, and your notes all speak different languages. MCP is the agreement that fixed it.…
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A plain-language visual explainer on retrieval augmented generation: why models cannot know your documents, how the right pages get found and handed over, and why the answer is only as good as the library.
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A pineapple with abs is cheating on a strawberry and thirty-nine million people watched it happen. Then in fifteen days six platforms moved against AI slop at once. Read the policies side by side and not one of them banned AI. What they banned was volume.
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This post put itself on the schedule on a Tuesday night while I was doing something else. Let me walk you through what actually runs, because most of it is boring, and boring is the whole point.
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