The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we’re talking about why some chatbot subscriptions are so expensive and how these premium prices were determined on vibes more than anything substantial.
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we’re talking about why some chatbot subscriptions are so expensive and how these premium prices were determined on vibes more than anything substantial.
The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s
OpenAI is bringing back GPT-4o in ChatGPT just one day after replacing it with GPT-5. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company will let paid users switch to GPT-4o after ChatGPT users mourned its replacement. “We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o,” Altman says. “We
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I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014: Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there’s still a number of settings that don’t exist in the new PC Settings app. “Why do I have to go the
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Discord users are already using video game characters to bypass the UK’s age-check laws. AI deepfakes could make things even more complicated.
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OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday to both free users of ChatGPT and paying subscribers.
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You can save $150 on various iPad Air configurations. Laptops are great, but sometimes it’s simply just more convenient to use a tablet like the iPad Air. The Air’s easier to carry, after all, and still powerful enough to handle everything from streaming to taking notes and reading. And right now, the latest version of
The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s chat feature, which lets you ask questions about the content in your tabs.
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Something’s off with that chart on the left. During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive — but if you look closely, some graphs were a little bit off. In one, ironically showing how well GPT-5 does in “deception evals across models,” the
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump’s second term as president—and never published the results.
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