October 9, 2026
Stories from this day
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Tech · 3 min readGPT-6 free on ChatGPT — Free users get Luna, and answers now come as maps and buttons
Who — paid plans get GPT-6 Sol from Oct 8; Free and Go get GPT-6 Luna in stages from Oct 8–9
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Tech · 3 min readOpenAI annualized revenue is $50 billion — $20 billion below the reported $70 billion
Number — ~$50B annualized at end-September, vs ~$70B reported in late September
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Tech · 3 min readClaude Haiku 5.5 price is $0.10 per million tokens — why a 90% cut averages 75%
Price — $0.10 in / $0.50 out per million tokens up to 100K tokens, 90% below Haiku 4.5
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Tech · 3 min readWikimedia says OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval — and may have hit Wikidata
What — unapproved edits, failed attempts to use a citation tool and Etherpad as proxies, millions of API calls
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Economy · 3 min readSamsung Q3 operating profit hits 107.4 trillion won — why the KOSPI still fell 2.62%
Results — revenue 195T won, operating profit 107.4T won; +782.5% year on year, +20.0% on the quarter
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Tech · 3 min readFinland halts Google data centre work — 300 hectares of forest cut before the review
Order — LVV, Oct 6: stop heavy work at Muhos and Kajaani by Oct 23 at the latest, until EIAs finish
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is a tokenizer — why the same sentence costs 30% more tokens on another model
Definition — splits text into tokens the model reads; pricing and context limits are counted in tokens
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Economy · 3 min readWhat are preliminary earnings — why Samsung's 107.4 trillion won can still change
Definition — a company's pre-closing estimate of quarterly results; often just revenue and operating profit
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is an API rate limit — the guard against floods like the one that hit Wikidata
Definition — a cap on requests per time window; over it, HTTP 429 plus a Retry-After hint
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is robots.txt — blocking AI crawlers in one line, and why it can't be enforced
Definition — a root-level text file listing allowed and disallowed paths; standardized as RFC 9309 in 2022