Claude Haiku 5.5 is cheaper, but counts more tokens
$0.10/$0.50 per million tokens up to 100k tokens, five times that above it. Simon Willison measured about 25% more tokens than Haiku 4.5 on a long prompt.
Radar · updated Thursday 8 October
A few headlines worth a look.
Every morning we scan around 30 public sources on AI, automation, finance and business, and keep the few that matter for work. One line on why, and a link to the original.
Picked and summarised with AI, published automatically. Read the original before acting on anything; this is not investment advice. Each item stays for three days.
Thursday 8 October
ChatGPT answers start to look like small apps
According to the summary, GPT-6 is rolling out in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI: answers with charts, images and buttons. More reason to check the numbers.
Wise to cover tax bills after a software miscalculation
According to the FT summary, about 4,000 users' investment gains were miscalculated. Automated errors repeat at scale, so checks matter.
Copilot gets access to local files in Windows
According to the summary, Microsoft's Copilot upgrade can reach files on your PC. Assistants move from answering to acting; permissions matter.
Wednesday 7 October
Zapier turns its agents into an AI step inside a workflow
AI handles the fuzzy step, fixed actions do the rest, and you decide per tool when a person has to approve.
AI agents' next hurdle: websites that won't let them in
Some blocks are deliberate, like paid licences; others are accidental, like CAPTCHAs and default bot blocking.
Gemini's free plan keeps only Flash Lite from 9 October
Google is taking the Flash and Pro models out of Gemini's free plan, according to the summary.
Spain delays Verifactu again to match mandatory e-invoicing
More time for the new invoicing software rules in Spain. The new dates are in the original article.
Brussels weighs a levy on all large companies to reach big tech
A broad tax would avoid singling out US tech firms, according to the FT's summary.