Topic: subscription tiers
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94 New Games Hit Game Pass Today: See the Full List
Microsoft has restructured Game Pass into three tiers—Essential, Premium, and Ultimate—adding 94 new games including major titles like Hogwarts Legacy and Diablo 4, and integrating Ubisoft+ Classics. The Premium tier offers over 200 games, includes first-party titles within a year of release, and...
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Unlock GPT-5.2 Instant for Just $8 with ChatGPT Go
ChatGPT Go is a new $8/month subscription tier in the US, offering a budget-friendly entry point with core features like file uploads and image generation, undercutting the $20 ChatGPT Plus plan. The plan provides expanded access to the GPT-5.2 Instant model with longer memory and context windows...
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Rises to $29.99
Microsoft has increased the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription price to $29.99 per month, a 50% rise, while rebranding tiers and adding features like expanded game libraries and unlimited cloud gaming. Ultimate subscribers gain access to over 400 games, including 45 available immediately and mo...
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Snapchat+ Hits 25M Subscribers, Reaches $1B Revenue Milestone
Snapchat+ has reached a $1 billion annual revenue run rate with over 25 million subscribers, becoming a major revenue stream alongside advertising. The service has expanded into multiple subscription tiers, including Lens+ and a premium Platinum tier, and now includes paid storage plans for the M...
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Xbox Game Pass Price Increase Precedes New Handheld Launch
Microsoft has restructured its Xbox Game Pass into three tiers—Essential ($9.99), Premium ($14.99), and Ultimate ($29.99)—each offering progressively larger game libraries and additional perks like day-one releases and bundled services. Xbox console prices are increasing, with the Series S rising...
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Hike: Now $30/Month with New Perks
Microsoft has raised the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by 50% to $29.99 per month in the U.S. and introduced a restructured subscription model with three tiers: Essential, Premium, and Ultimate. To justify the higher cost, Microsoft is adding new benefits to the Ultimate plan, including a Fort...
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OpenAI Tests Ads in Free ChatGPT and Plus Versions
OpenAI is testing contextual ads in ChatGPT for select free and Go users in the U.S., while excluding all paid subscription tiers and conversations on sensitive topics like health or politics. The ads are targeted based on conversation topics and user history, but advertisers do not access person...
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Alexa Plus Launches Nationwide With New Free Tier
Amazon's generative AI assistant, Alexa Plus, is now fully available nationwide in the U.S., offering a more conversational experience to Prime members at no extra cost, with free and paid tiers for others. The service is a complete rebuild powered by new AI models, shifting from simple commands ...
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Is Google AI Plus Worth Downgrading For?
The Google AI Plus plan is a cost-effective mid-tier option offering 90 daily "Thinking" prompts and 30 "Pro" prompts, suitable for users who rely on Gemini for daily assistance but don't require peak performance for complex tasks. A key limitation of AI Plus is its 128,000-token context window, ...
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OpenAI Tests Ads in ChatGPT: What It Means for Users
OpenAI is launching a limited U.S. test of contextually relevant ads within ChatGPT conversations for free and ChatGPT Go users, while keeping premium plans ad-free and excluding users under 18. This creates a novel, high-intent advertising channel where sponsored messages appear during active us...
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ChatGPT Is Getting Ads: Here's How They'll Work
OpenAI will introduce non-intrusive, clearly marked advertisements to ChatGPT's free and lower-tier plans, ensuring ads do not influence the chatbot's core responses. The ads will be matched to conversation topics with strong privacy safeguards; user data and conversations will not be sold to adv...
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GameStop Defies Microsoft, Keeps Game Pass Ultimate at $19.99
GameStop is maintaining the $19.99 price for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, challenging Microsoft's 50% price increase and offering significant savings on one-month and three-month memberships. Microsoft's price hike accompanies service enhancements, including access to over 400 games, day-one releases...
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Google Gemini: Official Usage Limits Revealed
Google Gemini has clarified its usage limits, replacing vague descriptions with specific daily prompt and feature caps across different subscription tiers. Free accounts are limited to 5 prompts, 5 Deep Research reports, and 100 AI-generated images per day, while Pro and Ultra plans offer signifi...
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AT&T Revives Smart Home With Google and Abode Partnership
AT&T has launched a new **Connected Life** smart home security platform in partnership with Google and Abode, offering bundled equipment kits and subscription plans to simplify home automation. The service features two main subscription tiers, including a **Professional plan** with optional 24/7 ...
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PlayStation Black Friday 2025: PS5 Deals, PS Plus 33% Off
The PlayStation Direct UK Black Friday 2025 sale offers significant discounts on hardware, including the 30th Anniversary PS5 Digital Slim and various console bundles, as well as up to 33% off on PlayStation Plus 12-month memberships. Controller deals feature price reductions on the standard Dual...
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Google Offers a Free Year of GeForce Now for Chromebook Gaming
Google and Nvidia are offering a free year of GeForce Now Fast Pass with new Chromebook purchases, shifting focus to cloud gaming after ending Steam integration on ChromeOS. This partnership leverages Nvidia's established cloud technology, allowing users to stream demanding games from remote serv...
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OpenAI Reveals: Top Uses for ChatGPT According to Real Data
A new study by OpenAI and Harvard economist David Denning provides the first direct insight into real user behavior with ChatGPT, based on internal platform data rather than self-reported surveys. ChatGPT has experienced explosive growth, with weekly active users on consumer plans exceeding 700 m...
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Xbox Cloud Gaming Now Available for All Game Pass Subscribers
Microsoft has expanded Xbox Cloud Gaming to all Game Pass subscribers, including Core and Standard tiers, removing the previous requirement for an Ultimate membership. The company is testing this change through the Xbox Insider program, which also grants access to select PC games for these subscr...
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February's New Xbox Game Pass Titles Revealed
Xbox Game Pass is adding a diverse lineup of new titles in February and early March, including major releases like *The Witcher 3: Complete Edition*, *EA Sports College Football 26*, and upcoming RPGs *Final Fantasy 3* and *Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2*. Notable new additions feature unique gamepl...
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Chrome's Latest Update Adds 3 AI Features, Including 'Nano Banana'
Google's Chrome browser has integrated three new AI features, including a Gemini-powered side panel for multitasking, an agentic Auto Browse function, and an image editor called Nano Banana, to enhance productivity. The Nano Banana tool allows users to directly edit images on webpages via text co...
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Claude AI Apps Launch for Slack and Workplace Tools
Anthropic has integrated interactive workplace apps like Slack, Canva, and Figma directly into Claude's interface, enabling actions such as sending messages or generating content, but this feature is exclusive to paid subscription plans. This app integration, built on the open Model Context Proto...
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Netflix Ends Casting Support for Most TVs
Netflix has deliberately restricted Google Cast support, now limiting it to premium, ad-free subscribers and a narrow set of older hardware. This move aligns with Netflix's broader strategy to curb password sharing and tie viewing to specific devices and accounts within a household. The change ef...
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Sora and Nano Banana Pro Hit by Overwhelming Demand
A surge in demand for AI tools during the holiday weekend led Google and OpenAI to impose stricter daily limits on their free services to manage unprecedented user traffic. OpenAI's Sora video generation model now restricts free users to six videos per day, citing overwhelmed infrastructure and e...
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Try Google Gemini for Your Home Now
Google has launched the Gemini for Home early access program in the U.S., integrating its advanced AI into the redesigned Google Home app and replacing Google Assistant on compatible devices. Gemini enhances smart home interactions by understanding complex, multi-step commands, enabling tasks lik...
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Twitch Adds Easy Rewind Feature for Streams
Twitch has introduced a new feature allowing viewers to rewind live streams directly from the channel page, making it more convenient than navigating to the Videos section. Initially, the rewind function is available only on the web version and is limited to Twitch Turbo and channel subscribers t...
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Monetize APIs Without a Marketplace: A Developer's Guide
The API monetization market in the U.S. is projected to reach $8 billion by 2027, with AI-powered APIs and industries like travel driving significant revenue growth. API monetization involves value exchanges like developer communities or enterprise integrations, with models including usage-based ...
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Claude Gains Memory to Rival ChatGPT and Gemini
Anthropic has introduced a memory feature for its Claude AI chatbot, enabling it to retain details from past conversations to create more personalized and seamless interactions for paid subscribers. The memory system is transparent and user-controlled, allowing individuals to view, manage, or edi...
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Anthropic Warns: New Claude Feature Poses Data Risk
Anthropic's Claude AI now enables users to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and PDFs directly within the platform, aiming to enhance productivity but raising data security concerns. The feature, currently for Max, Team, and Enterprise users with a future rollout to Pro, requires activatio...
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OpenAI Tests ChatGPT Ads in U.S., Shifting AI Monetization
OpenAI is introducing advertisements to ChatGPT for free users and a new budget subscription, marking a strategic shift to generate revenue from its vast non-paying user base to offset high operational costs. This model embeds clearly labeled ads directly within the conversational flow, aiming to...
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ChatGPT's Research Tool Now Features a Built-In Document Viewer
OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT's deep research tool with a new full-screen document viewer, featuring a table of contents and source list for better navigation and verification. The update introduces user controls to prioritize specific websites and allows real-time editing of the research scope and...
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NotebookLM Upgrades to Gemini 3, Adds Data Tables Feature
Google's NotebookLM has been upgraded with the Gemini 3 AI model for improved reasoning and a new Data Tables feature that organizes unstructured documents into structured, exportable tables. The tool now integrates with the Gemini app, allowing users to merge notebooks, create content, and expan...
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Google Finance adds Gemini AI with prediction market insights
Google Finance is integrating Gemini AI with predictive insights from betting markets, enabling users to ask complex questions about future market trends and receive detailed, data-backed analysis. A new Deep Research feature allows users to generate fully cited, comprehensive research reports on...
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Claude Now Integrates with Excel: 7 New Connectors Added
Anthropic has enhanced Claude with Excel integration, seven market data connectors, and six finance Skills to support financial professionals in data analysis and reporting. The Excel integration allows direct interaction within spreadsheets for queries and modifications, while new connectors pro...
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Get Your Weekly AI-Powered Playlist on Amazon Music Every Monday
Amazon Music has launched a new AI-generated playlist called "Weekly Vibe" for U.S. subscribers, updated every Monday to reflect recent listening habits and preferences. The feature aims to combat playlist fatigue by analyzing user behavior to mix favorite tracks with new, personalized song recom...
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Malware Service Plants Phishing Extensions on Chrome Web Store
A new malware-as-a-service platform called 'Stanley' sells malicious Chrome extensions designed to bypass official store reviews and deploy deceptive phishing pages that leave the legitimate URL visible in the address bar. The service provides attackers with a control panel to manage hijacking ru...
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Google's AI Is Reshaping Your Gmail Inbox
Google is launching a new AI Inbox feature for Gmail that uses artificial intelligence to generate personalized to-dos and summaries from emails, aiming to transform the inbox into an active assistant. The feature is initially available to a select group of U.S. testers on personal web accounts, ...
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Battletoads and 3 Classic Games Hit Nintendo Switch Online
Nintendo Switch Online has added four classic games from NES and Game Boy, including Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden II for NES, and Kid Icarus and Bionic Commando for Game Boy. Battletoads is notably difficult and marks its first official availability on a Nintendo Switch platform, while two of the...
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Google Finance Adds AI Deep Search & Prediction Markets
Google Finance is launching new AI-powered features, including Deep Search for complex queries, prediction markets data, and enhanced real-time earnings tracking, initially available to Google Labs users. Deep Search uses advanced Gemini AI models to synthesize information from multiple sources f...
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Amazon Luna's Major Overhaul: Key Changes Revealed
Amazon Luna's major update introduces new social gaming features and expands its game library, enhancing the experience for Prime members at no extra cost. A key addition is GameNight, a multiplayer-focused feature that uses smartphones for gameplay, including classics, party games, and new title...
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More PS1 & PS2 Classics Coming to PlayStation Plus Premium
Sony is expanding the PlayStation Plus Premium library with classic titles Soul Calibur 3, Tekken 3, and Tomb Raider: Anniversary, as announced during the State of Play broadcast. Tekken 3 is a landmark fighting game from 1998 known for its refined gameplay and the innovative Tekken Force mode, w...
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Google's Gmail gets AI search and an organized inbox
Google is integrating its Gemini AI into Gmail, launching new features for paying subscribers and expanding access to some AI tools for a wider audience. A key addition is AI Overview in Gmail search, which allows users to ask questions in plain language to get concise answers and summaries direc...
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December's PS Plus Extra & Premium Games Revealed
Sony has announced the December PS Plus Extra and Premium game lineup, featuring major titles like *Assassin's Creed Mirage* and *Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty* alongside family-friendly and indie games, available from December 16th. Premium members will receive the classic fighting game *Soulcalibur 3...
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Google Finance Integrates Gemini AI for Stock Traders
Google Finance is integrating Gemini AI to introduce a Deep Search feature, enabling users to ask complex questions and receive comprehensive, cited answers, with a US rollout planned in the coming weeks. The platform is adding support for prediction markets, allowing investors to access probabil...
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Share Your Custom Google Gemini AI Assistants, Called Gems
Google has introduced a feature allowing users to share custom Gemini AI assistants, known as Gems, similar to sharing documents on Google Drive, enhancing collaborative use across teams and projects. Initially part of a paid subscription, Gems enable tailored AI chatbots for various purposes, an...
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Replit's New AI Agent Checks Its Own Code - Try It Now
Replit's Agent 3 is an autonomous AI tool that generates, tests, and refines code through natural language, enhancing efficiency for developers and non-programmers alike. It outperforms previous models with faster speeds and cost savings, and integrates with platforms like Slack and Gmail, positi...
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Gemini's Lyria 3 Now Lets Everyone Create Music
Google's Gemini app introduces a Lyria 3-powered tool that generates original 30-second music tracks with lyrics and cover art from text prompts, emphasizing creative control and original expression over imitation. The feature is accessed via the app's "Tools" menu, allowing users to create music...
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Google Docs Adds AI Audio Summaries with Gemini
Google Docs has launched AI-powered audio summaries, a new feature that generates brief spoken overviews of documents to enable quicker comprehension without reading. The tool is accessible via the Tools menu, offering customizable playback speeds and voice styles, and is powered by Google's Gemi...
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January 2026 PS Plus Extra & Premium Games Revealed
Sony's PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium tiers will receive new games on January 20th, 2026, with Extra getting modern titles and Premium adding a classic remaster. The PS Plus Extra catalog gains five diverse games, including the PS5 exclusive "Echoes of the Fallen," the multiplayer shooter "Ne...
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ChatGPT Won't Train on Your Health Data, OpenAI Says
OpenAI has launched a dedicated **ChatGPT Health** feature, creating a private space for wellness conversations and emphasizing that personal health data will not be used to train its core AI models. The tool is designed for informational support to help users feel more prepared, but includes cle...
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Snapchat's First Free AI Lens Launches in the US
Snapchat has made its AI-powered "Imagine Lens" free for all U.S. users, allowing them to generate or alter images using text prompts, after previously limiting it to subscribers. The decision to offer the feature for free is a competitive response to AI advancements from rivals like Meta and Ope...
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