Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 26 October 2026
A tester put Meta's free Muse and OpenAI's $100 dots agents to work on five chores
The free agent app that is the most downloaded phone app right now can book, reply and plan for you. Here is what it did well.
Which free AI chatbot gives Irish users the best model today? A new comparison finds free plans keep their best models back
Tech Insider says ChatGPT Free has the widest rollout of a new model family, with OpenAI's GPT-6 reaching Free and Go users on 8 October, while Mistral's Le Chat has the clearest European angle. Claude, Gemini and Grok each hold their best models for paying users. No vendor page publishes exact free message limits for Ireland, so the site says so rather than guess.
- Open the model picker in your own account and read the label before judging a tool: the free model you get depends on how far a staged rollout has reached you.
- If privacy matters, note that OpenAI said on 5 October it would test a new ad format during image generation for Free and Go users.
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