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    <title>Deal: ElevenLabs Starter: $1 for the first month (ends Oct 18)</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>ElevenLabs' pricing page lists Starter at $1 for the first month (83% off the regular $6), then $6/month. Starter includes commercial license, Instant Voice Cloning, 30k credits/month, and Music commercial use. Ends 2026-10-18.</description>
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    <title>Deal: Framer Basic and Pro: 2× credits in the first month</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Framer's pricing page lists '2× credits first month' on both Basic ($10/mo) and Pro ($30/mo). Yearly billing also includes a complimentary custom domain.</description>
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    <title>GPT-Live-1.1 and new voices in ChatGPT Voice</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>More natural accents across languages, plus new voices for French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mexican Spanish and English ('Bubbie'). Pick one in Settings &gt; Voice.</description>
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    <title>Deal: Claude Max: $100–$200/month API credits now included</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Max 5x includes $100/month and Max 20x $200/month in API credits for building on the Claude Platform. Anthropic's release notes (Oct 7, 2026) say they roll out over a few days and are claimed by linking a Claude Console organization in Settings &gt; Billing.</description>
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    <title>Deal: ChatGPT: any Black Friday deal?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>None is listed on OpenAI's pricing page today. Current list prices are Free $0, Go $8, Plus $20, Pro from $100 per month.</description>
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    <title>Deal: Suno Black Friday 2026 (Nov 24 – Dec 1)?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>A page on suno.com/hub claims 40% off annual Pro and Premier (20% off monthly) from Nov 24 to Dec 1, 2026. The same page also says the deal is over, so we can't tell whether it is a live announcement or a stale page, and the pricing page itself shows no sale.</description>
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    <title>Grok Voice 3.0 speech-to-speech model</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>xAI says Grok Voice 3.0 ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index (86.9) with latency under one second. Available in the API at the same price as Grok Voice 2.0.</description>
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    <title>Deal: Grok is now sold as 'The X Subscription'. Existing plans can stay or switch</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>xAI's new bundle (Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, X Premium) is $8 Plus, $30 Premium, $100 Super, $200 Ultra per month. Existing SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium subscribers can keep their current plan and price, or switch and get a prorated refund. xAI says switching comes with limited-time offers shown in your account billing settings.</description>
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    <title>The X Subscription: Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium in one plan</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>New plans at $8, $30, $100 and $200 per month share one usage pool across Grok and Cursor. Grok Bot is included from Premium up. (Launch date per third-party reporting; xAI's own post is undated.)</description>
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    <title>Katana: rebuild video edits inside Claude</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Katana takes a reference edit plus up to five photos of characters, products or clothing and rebuilds the video with your assets through Higgsfield MCP in Claude. It uses your normal Higgsfield credits.</description>
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    <title>Composer predictions in Codex (beta)</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Codex suggests your next message; press Tab to accept, then edit before sending. Personal ChatGPT Pro users 18+ in the latest Codex desktop app.</description>
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    <title>Testing Thinking Mode on the Alpha site</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Midjourney is testing a Thinking Mode on alpha.midjourney.com. Use Rerun (Thinking) under a job's lightbox. In tests it improves prompt accuracy, typography and coherence. Feedback wanted.</description>
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    <title>GPT-6 with Intelligent UI in ChatGPT</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>ChatGPT can mix text, visuals and interactive elements (comparisons, diagrams, calculators, games) and start answering while it keeps thinking. Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise get GPT-6 Sol; Free and Go get GPT-6 Luna.</description>
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    <title>Claude Haiku 5.5</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Anthropic's cheapest, fastest and most capable small model, aimed at high-volume, cost-sensitive work.</description>
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    <title>Monthly API credits for Max and Team plans</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Link a Claude Console organization in billing settings to claim them. Rolling out over a few days.</description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Upload audio to get transcripts, summaries and structured notes from meetings, interviews or lectures. Paid plans.</description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Upload one reference video ad (4 to 30 seconds) and up to 20 images. Ad Multiplier swaps the character, product, outfit or location and can change the hook, script or call to action.</description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Characters are built from 19 menu settings, with a character type from Average to Extreme and an optional photo of your face. The Motion tab turns them into video with Genjutsu. One generation costs 1.12 credits.</description>
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    <title>Speech (beta): voice and music in one track</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Speech makes spoken audio set to original background music. Type an idea or poem, then describe the voice and musical style. Suno has opened the beta to everyone.</description>
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    <title>Ads Studio makes static ads from your website</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Ads Studio builds static ads with copy and visuals from your brand kit and products, up to 20 variations per product in one run. Each ad costs 4 credits. It does not make video ads.</description>
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    <title>Dots (always-on agents), Pro 500 plan and Codex Cloud</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Dots are always-on agents for eligible Pro and Business Premium users. Pro 500 is a new $500/month tier with Astra Ultrafast. Codex Cloud lets tasks keep running while your computer sleeps.</description>
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    <title>Claude Sonnet 5.5</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>A faster, lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5.</description>
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    <title>Team Bots: shared Grok Bots for your whole team</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Share a Grok Bot with your team. It combines files and instructions, plugins like Salesforce, Notion and GitHub, credentials and memories. Each person's chats stay private, and a Bot can join a Slack channel.</description>
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    <title>Edit updates, live style previews, better tiling</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Alpha adds Live previews of your prompt across liked and featured styles. Inpainting and outpainting now change only the selected pixels, and --tile blends without seams in V8.1 and V8.2.</description>
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    <title>Claude Opus 5.5</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>First of the 5.5 family. Anthropic says it performs at Fable 5.1 level on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.</description>
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    <title>Cowork in every conversation; Design, Slides and Docs in any chat</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Hand Claude a report, spreadsheet or deck from any conversation without picking a mode. Design, Slides and Docs artifacts are on every plan, including Free.</description>
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    <title>Higgsfield API: pay-as-you-go model access</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>A self-serve developer API for 50+ video and image models, billed in US dollars per generation with no subscription. Rates are published, and failed requests are not charged.</description>
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    <title>Suno v6: three models and plain-language edits</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>v6 comes as v6 (Pro and Premier), v6-wild (Pro and Premier) and v6-mini (everyone). You can edit part of a song, build mashups and change a single lyric using plain language. Older models will be retired.</description>
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    <title>Partnership with Believe and TuneCore</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Believe will be part of Suno's new industry-partner models. Tracks made with them become eligible to distribute through Believe and TuneCore, with watermarking and download limits applying.</description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Grok Bot is now open to enterprises, with access, network and audit controls. Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers get free usage for two weeks and can invite their whole organization.</description>
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    <title>First V8.2 image edit model open to everyone</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>The edit model supports editing with instructions, up to 4 image references, inpainting and outpainting, and personalization, moodboards and srefs. Use it from the prompt bar, lightbox, Edit tab or --edit on Discord.</description>
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    <title>Deal: ChatGPT Plus: 4 months free for US college students</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Eligible US full- and part-time college and graduate students get four free monthly billing periods of ChatGPT Plus (OpenAI calls it an $80 value). Verify via SheerID and claim while signed in to the account you want it on. Ends 2026-10-31.</description>
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    <title>Suno Studio 2.0 adds MIDI, chat and automation</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Studio 2.0 adds MIDI import, recording and editing, a chat bar (beta), advanced stem separation, audio effects and plugins, and automation curves. It is available to Premier subscribers.</description>
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    <title>Grok 4.6, built for long-running agents</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Grok 4.6 builds on Grok 4.5 for long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work. At launch it is in Cursor and Grok Build, with 2x included usage for the first week.</description>
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    <title>Global partnership with BMG</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Suno announced a global partnership with BMG as part of the upcoming launch of its first music model developed with the music industry, with opt-in experiences for artists and songwriters.</description>
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    <title>Midjourney V8.2 image model</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>V8.2 focuses on aesthetics, image quality and personalization. Midjourney says images should be bolder and low-quality results rarer, and personalization should better reflect your taste.</description>
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    <title>Midjourney's first acquisition: Co–Star</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Midjourney announced it is acquiring Co–Star. Its founder Banu and team join to build a broader product and design organization, and Co–Star stays under her control and direction.</description>
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    <title>Deal: Suno: annual billing saves $24 (Pro) or $72 (Premier) per year</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Suno's pricing page shows Pro at $8/month and Premier at $24/month with the annual toggle, with 'saves $24' and 'saves $72' by billing yearly (so monthly billing works out to roughly $10 and $30; that last step is our arithmetic).</description>
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    <title>Deal: Claude Pro: annual billing saves $40/year</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Anthropic lists Pro at $17/month with an annual subscription ($200 billed up front) versus $20/month billed monthly.</description>
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    <title>Deal: Midjourney: 20% off with annual billing</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Midjourney's docs list a 20% discount for committing to an annual plan, paid up front: Basic $96/yr, Standard $288/yr, Pro $576/yr, Mega $1,152/yr.</description>
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