Topic: subscription pricing
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OpenAI Launches More Affordable ChatGPT Subscription
OpenAI has launched a new, more affordable global subscription called ChatGPT Go, priced at $8/month, to bridge the gap between its free and premium Plus tiers. The Go plan offers significantly enhanced features over the free version, including approximately 10x more messages with the fast GPT-5....
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HBO Max hikes prices for third consecutive year
HBO Max is increasing prices for the third consecutive year across all subscription tiers, affecting both monthly and annual plans. Specific price hikes include the Basic with Ads plan rising by $1 to $10.99 monthly, the Standard ad-free plan increasing to $18.49, and the Premium 4K plan going up...
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What Is ChatGPT Go? Your Quick Guide
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Go, a more affordable subscription tier priced around $4.50, to increase accessibility in markets where the standard $20 fee is prohibitive, though it is not available in the United States. The plan offers significant upgrades over the free version, including higher me...
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Top Spotify Alternatives for Music Streaming
Spotify's recent price increases are prompting users to explore alternatives, with the market offering diverse services based on audio quality, artist compensation, and pricing models. Major platforms like Apple Music and Tidal emphasize high-fidelity audio, while Bandcamp operates as a direct ar...
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Ditch Spotify Premium: 3 Cheaper Music Streaming Alternatives
Several affordable alternatives to Spotify Premium exist, offering robust music libraries and excellent features for a lower monthly cost, making it worthwhile to compare services based on budget and listening habits. Apple Music provides significant value through its Apple One subscription bundl...
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Opera Neon AI Browser Launches: $20/Month for Power Users
Opera has launched its premium Neon AI browser for $19.90/month, targeting advanced users and competing directly with new AI-focused browsers and established players integrating AI. The browser provides unified access to multiple leading AI models and features four specialized agents for conversa...
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X Rebrands Verified as Premium Business and Organizations
X has rebranded its premium services into two tiers: Premium Business with a gold checkmark for companies and Premium Organizations with a grey checkmark for government bodies. Premium Business offers tools for scaling, including credibility boosts, visibility features, and support, with pricing ...
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Microsoft 365 Premium: Office + AI for ChatGPT Plus Price
Microsoft 365 Premium combines Office applications with advanced AI features like Copilot, directly competing with ChatGPT Plus at $19.99 per month. The subscription targets professionals and solopreneurs, offering high usage limits for AI tools and including Office apps for up to six users with ...
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Instagram's Controversial Ad Model Expands to UK After EU Ban
Meta is launching a "pay or consent" advertising model in the UK, requiring Instagram and Facebook users to either accept personalized ads or pay a monthly fee for an ad-free experience. The subscription costs £2.99 per month via web browsers but rises to £3.99 on mobile apps due to commissions c...
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Black Friday Deal: Get 6 Months of Apple TV at 2022 Prices
Apple TV Plus is offering a Black Friday promotion of six months for $5.99 per month, a significant discount from the standard $12.99 fee, providing substantial savings for new and returning customers. The service features an ad-free experience with a diverse library including original series lik...
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MKBHD Discontinues His Wallpaper App
Tech reviewer MKBHD is shutting down his premium wallpaper app, Panels, on December 31st, citing an inability to realize its original vision after a year of operation. The app faced immediate backlash at launch for its expensive subscription model and advertising, and a shift in the development t...
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Score Black Friday Streaming Deals on Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max & More
Major streaming platforms like Disney+, HBO Max, and Paramount+ are offering significant Black Friday discounts, making premium content more affordable for new and returning subscribers. Disney+ is bundling with Hulu for $4.99/month for a year, while HBO Max provides its Basic plan at $2.99/month...
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NotebookLM adds chat history and new AI Ultra tier
Google's NotebookLM has introduced a full rollout of chat history functionality, enabling users to continue conversations seamlessly across web and mobile devices with timestamped responses. The platform has launched a new AI Ultra subscription tier for $250/month, offering dramatically h...
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Xbox Game Pass Adds 8 New Games, Including The Outer Worlds 2
Xbox Game Pass is adding eight new titles, including major sequels like *The Outer Worlds 2* and *PowerWash Simulator 2*, enhancing the service's appeal with diverse genres and day-one releases. Key features in the new games include shared progression in *PowerWash Simulator 2* for cooperative pl...
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Civilization Launches on Apple Arcade February 5
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII Arcade Edition launches on Apple Arcade on February 5, bringing the full PC strategy experience to Apple devices for on-the-go play without ads or extra purchases. Three other titles join Apple Arcade on February 5: Retrocade bundles classic arcade games, Felicity’s D...
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Grammarly Rebrands as Superhuman
Grammarly has rebranded to Superhuman, integrating its writing assistant with Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new AI helper called Superhuman Go into a single suite. The platform now offers a comprehensive AI-driven work tool that connects with over 100 applications, providing contextual suggestions...
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ZoraSafe App to Shield Seniors Online at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
ZoraSafe is a cybersecurity app designed for seniors to protect them from online threats and educate them through gamified learning, set to debut at TechCrunch Disrupt. The app features QR code scanning, analysis of suspicious messages, and a community-driven database for reporting scams to prote...
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Peloton Unveils New AI-Powered Hardware for a Smarter Workout
Peloton is launching a Cross Training Series with updated equipment featuring 360-degree swivel displays and movement tracking cameras, enabling seamless transitions between cardio and strength workouts in a unified ecosystem. The new lineup includes AI-powered Peloton IQ, which provides real-tim...
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Microsoft Office Adds Anthropic, Ending OpenAI Exclusivity
Microsoft is integrating Anthropic's AI models into Office 365 to expand generative AI features beyond its exclusive partnership with OpenAI. The decision is based on performance evaluations, with Anthropic's model excelling in specialized tasks like visual design and spreadsheet automation. Micr...
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Midjourney Unveils AI-Powered Video Generator
Midjourney has launched its first AI-powered video generation tool, allowing users to convert static images into short animated clips (up to 21 seconds) with customizable motion effects. The feature is available only on Midjourney’s web platform and Discord server, requiring a paid subscription s...
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Apple Secures $750 Million F1 U.S. Streaming Rights for 5 Years
Starting in 2026, Formula 1 will stream exclusively in the U.S. on Apple TV under a five-year, $750 million agreement, ending ESPN's current rights after 2025. The partnership includes full access to all F1 sessions for Apple TV subscribers at $12.99/month, with some free content available, and i...
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Peloton Cuts 11% of Workforce After AI Hardware Launch
Peloton is laying off 11% of its global workforce, primarily in engineering, as part of an ongoing cost-cutting strategy following a previous round of layoffs. The company is launching new AI-equipped hardware to drive growth, but faces declining sales and disappointing initial performance for th...
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Turn Your Phone Into a Gaming Controller with This Remote Desktop Tool
DeskIn is a remote desktop app that transforms mobile devices into extended displays and custom controllers for PC gaming, supporting multiple operating systems. It enables flexible screen management for multi-monitor setups, file transfers between devices, and customizable input mapping for comp...
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Turn Photos Into Kids' Coloring Pages With AI
Splat is a new app that uses generative AI to instantly transform personal photos into custom, printable coloring book pages, offering a personalized alternative to generic online printables. The app provides a simple, ad-free experience with fast processing and includes parental controls, but re...
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Strava Locks Popular Year in Sport Recap Behind Paywall
Strava has moved its popular annual Year in Sport recap behind a paywall for the first time, a significant shift that has frustrated its free-user community. Users and critics have widely condemned the decision as greedy and exploitative, arguing it monetizes user-generated data instead of adding...
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Xbox Game Pass Adds New Games Constantly As Major Title Leaves
Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass ad contrasts old game rental frustrations with modern subscription convenience, highlighting continuous new content without physical returns. The service offers over 850 games with regular updates but also removes titles twice monthly, such as *Stalker 2* due to licensi...
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Opera's New AI Browser Comes With a Price
Opera Neon is a new subscription-based AI browser priced at $19.90 per month, currently available only to a limited group of initial testers with others needing to join a waitlist. The browser integrates multiple specialized AI agents, including Tasks for creating project workspaces and Do for ha...
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Create AI Images on Snapchat with Just Text Prompts
Snapchat has launched the Imagine Lens, a new feature for Snapchat+ Platinum and Lens+ subscribers that generates and modifies images based on text prompts. This tool allows users to create original visuals or alter existing snaps with custom or pre-loaded prompts, offering enhanced creative cont...
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Ladder's New Workout App Adds Nutrition Tracking
The fitness technology sector is evolving with AI-driven nutrition tracking becoming standard, as new and established apps enhance dietary monitoring tools. Ladder introduced an integrated nutrition feature that allows users to log meals via photos, barcodes, or voice, providing macronutrient est...
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New AI Browser Launches & Fujifilm X-T30 III Debuts
Nimo Infinity is a Chromium-based browser that uses an AI assistant to create personalized "Dynamic Apps" by integrating data from multiple connected applications into a single interface. The browser is currently in early access, offering a free version with limited features and a $20 monthly sub...
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VSCO Adds AI Editing and RAW File Support
VSCO has introduced advanced AI image editing capabilities, including support for high-resolution RAW files and non-destructive editing, through a new "AI Labs" section. The update features an AI-driven object removal tool that intelligently replaces unwanted elements while preserving resolution ...
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Spotify Lets You Block Kids' Music From Your Recommendations
Spotify is introducing managed accounts for children under 13, available to Premium Family subscribers in countries like the US, UK, and Australia, offering a controlled, music-focused environment within the main app. Parents can filter explicit content, block specific songs or artists, and disab...
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FunFitLand Launches Moving Meditation for Mindful Fitness
FunFitLand launched FlowFit: A Moving Meditation Series, a VR experience blending mindfulness with physical activity, marking a major update to its platform. FlowFit features guided sessions in serene environments, focusing on tension release and inner balance through fluid movements, led by ...
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Garmin Connect+ Adds Food Logging: Is It Worth It?
Garmin has integrated comprehensive food and nutrition logging into its premium Garmin Connect+ service, directly pairing dietary intake with activity data from its wearables for a unified health tracking experience. The feature includes a fast barcode scanner, manual entry options, and image rec...
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Life After Spotify: A Surprisingly Bleak Experience
The author canceled Spotify due to ethical concerns over artist pay and corporate values, overcoming the inertia of a long-standing subscription and extensive personal library. After testing alternatives like YouTube Music and Tidal, the search revealed a landscape of flawed compromises, ultimate...
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Canva’s ‘Creative OS’ Is a Marketing Workspace
Canva is expanding its platform with a suite of new digital marketing and video-editing tools, centered around a proprietary AI model and branded as a "Creative Operating System" for comprehensive team workflows. The update includes a redesigned video editor for accessibility, a new Forms tool fo...
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Xbox Dev Kit Prices Are Soaring
Microsoft is raising the price of its Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000, a 33% increase, as part of broader price hikes on consoles and subscriptions. The company attributes the increases to macroeconomic factors, including tariffs on Chinese imports, and is working to shift production o...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Brings Back GameCube Classic July 3
Nintendo is adding "Super Mario Strikers" to the Switch 2’s retro GameCube lineup on July 3, continuing its effort to revitalize classic games for modern audiences. The original 2005 "Super Mario Strikers" is praised for its fast-paced, chaotic gameplay and iconic Mario characters, with sequels o...
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Apple TV's Fan-Favorite Shows: What's Returning Soon
Apple TV is premiering three returning original series in early 2026: the comedy "Shrinking" (Season 3), the thriller "Hijack" (Season 2), and the multilingual drama "Drops of God" (Season 2). "Shrinking" returns on January 28, exploring themes of moving forward with new cast additions, while "Hi...
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Snapchat Revives Classic 2D Bitmojis for Subscribers
Snapchat is reintroducing 2D Bitmoji avatars as an exclusive feature for its Snapchat Plus paying subscribers, offering a new "Comic Bitmoji" style. The new 2D style functions like a filter, maintaining customization and expressive features while providing a comic book look with more poses and de...
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