Thu, October 8, 2026
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👋 Good morning.
Your friend who refuses to pay for software gets GPT-6 today. Free and Go accounts start receiving the answers-with-buttons that paid plans got yesterday, so the next argument over the dinner bill may get settled by a bill splitter ChatGPT builds on the spot.
IN 3 MINUTES, GET 1% BETTER THAN EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
ChatGPT answers now come with buttons. Free too.
Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper. Max plans get API cash.
A meeting note-taker that never joins the call.
Diagrams instead of essays, and a one-hour apartment planner.
Get answers written like an airplane manual.
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GPT-6 with Intelligent UI. Source: OpenAI.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with Intelligent UI in ChatGPT's Chat tab. Paid plans got it yesterday on GPT-6 Sol, and Free and Go start today on GPT-6 Luna. Answers can now arrive as charts, forms, tappable buttons or a small tool built on the spot, like a savings calculator. By OpenAI's numbers, the Instant version starts answering web-search questions 44% sooner than GPT-5.6 Instant.
Do this: Next time you'd ask for an explanation, ask for a tool instead: "build me a calculator that compares these two loans." If you can change the inputs and watch the answer move, it worked.
The paragraph had a good run.
ChatGPT now builds you a tool instead of an essay. What's your first ask?
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest model and the first Haiku with an adjustable effort setting. For prompts up to 100k tokens it costs 90% less than Haiku 4.5: input drops from $1 to $0.10 per million tokens, output from $5 to $0.50. Above 100k, the cut is 50%. The part subscribers will notice is a monthly API credit rolling out this week: $100 on Max 5x, $200 on Max 20x and up to $500 pooled on Team. It works on any model on Claude Platform.
Do this: If you pay for Max and keep meaning to build one small agent or script, the budget is now included. Look for the credit on Claude Platform this week.
Your subscription just found money in its coat pocket.
OpenAI launched a Meetings plugin for ChatGPT on Mac that takes notes without sending a bot into the call, and it works in person too. It merges the transcript, your own notes and your connected apps into a summary with next steps, saved to a ChatGPT Space you can keep private or share. The audio is deleted from your Mac and OpenAI's servers once the notes are ready. It's in beta for Pro and Business, with iOS, Android and Windows coming soon, per Cult of Mac.
Do this: If you're on Pro or Business with a Mac, run it on your next in-person meeting. If clients flinch when a note-taker bot appears on the guest list, this one never does.
The best meeting attendee is apparently the one who never shows up.
2 things you didn't know you can do with AI
1. ✏️ Make Claude draw the explanation · Claude · connector
In part 262 of my Instagram series, Claude stops answering in walls of text. Add the Excalidraw connector from Customize, then Connectors, and ask it to explain something. It comes back with a hand-drawn diagram plus a short explanation. I asked what an agent harness is and got a labelled sketch. The catch: it's a sketch, not a spec, so check the labels before it goes into a deck.
2. 🏠 A 3D apartment planner from an hour of prompting · personal build · web
Brian Lovin built Apartment Planner 3000 for himself and his wife in about an hour of prompting. Paste a product link and AI pulls the details and files it by category, then a shared gallery shows what you both like. A photo of the floor plan becomes a 3D layout editor using the products' real dimensions, with Notion as the database. The catch: it's his own build shown in a demo, so there's nothing to sign up for.
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Andrej Karpathy's tip for answers you can actually read: ask your LLM to write in ASD-STE100, the Simplified Technical English built for aircraft maintenance manuals. About 900 approved words, one meaning each, one instruction per sentence.
Start: Pick the topic you've had explained three times and still can't repeat back.
Prompt: "Explain [topic] in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English."
Soften: If it reads too stiff, ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100," which is Karpathy's own tweak.
The catch: the spec is strict on purpose, so tone and nuance get flattened. Use it to understand things, not to write the client email.
If it's clear enough for a hydraulic reservoir, it's clear enough for your tax question.
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