The apps, devices and half finished betas worth your afternoon.
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OpenCode 2 was announced this week and installing OpenCode today still gives you 1.19.0. Here are 5 checks against Claude Code, with both pricing pages read at the source.
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Meta put the Gen 3 on sale on 23 September 2026 at $449 while the Gen 2 stays at $379. The camera is the same on both, so the $70 buys battery, a microphone and a button.
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Anthropic put Claude Slides on paid plans on 16 September 2026. Gamma already does the same job on a free tier. We priced both at the source this morning.
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Apple shipped Siri AI this week. Here is how the main assistants rank once you read what each one is allowed to take from your phone, and what each one really costs.
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Google just put sign reading inside a phone keyboard. Here is where it sits against Hand Talk, Live Transcribe and a human interpreter, with prices and what each one refuses to do.
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On November 12 Cursor stops serving OpenAI's models. We ran the same 5 checks on both tools against their own documentation, and each kind of developer gets a different answer.
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Download size, license and context window for 8 models you can actually run, sorted by the memory in your machine, with the cost arithmetic against a cloud API.
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