Google's Gemini 4 Argon Ties Astra. The Discount Has a Deadline.
Gemini 4 Argon matches Astra on an independent index at $2/$10 per million tokens. The price doubles in December, and tokens are only half the story.
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Tibo just put Codex on a 28-day ship-or-reset streak
OpenAI's Codex lead says the team will ship one real W every day until November, or everybody gets their usage limits refilled. Devs have never been this hyped for a team to miss a deadline.
Same $200, half the usage. Happy DevDay.
The night before its big developer event, OpenAI cut Pro $200 from 20x to 10x usage. Feel shortchanged? There's a $500 plan for that.
Users say Opus 5.5 got quieter. The bench still calls it noise.
Complaints that Claude Opus 5.5 has been nerfed picked up again in late September and were still landing on X on October 4. Anthropic has not confirmed a change. A public tracker says the drop is still inside normal variance.
Gemini 4 Argon arrives, with access starting among cyber defenders
Google has announced its next flagship model for demanding coding and knowledge work. Initial access is restricted to trusted cybersecurity partners, with broader availability still to come.
OpenAI DevDay 2026 puts ongoing agents and shared work at the center
Alongside GPT-6.1 Sol, OpenAI announced Dots, computer use for its Agents API, and new ways to collaborate in ChatGPT. Availability varies across plans, previews and announced future rollouts.
GPT-6.1 Sol targets capable agents at a lower token price
OpenAI's new Sol model brings stronger coding and computer use to the API, ChatGPT Work and Codex. Standard input and output tokens cost one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's rates.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 promises faster work without cutting token prices
Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 generates output over 30% faster and uses fewer tokens per task. The headline savings come from efficiency, while standard input and output prices stay unchanged.
You're all caught up.
That's the signal for today. The rest was noise.