NEWS/5 OCT

AI news for small business, Monday, 5 October 2026

6 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.

HIGHLIGHT

OpenAI's guide to GPT-6 shows the cheapest model costs one hundredth of the top one

Astra, Sol and Luna: pick by the job, not by the name on top.

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That is mon 5 oct, all of it.

These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit

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