Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8 with better coding and lower fast mode pricing
… Pricing for regular Opus 4.8 usage remains unchanged, costing $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. …
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AMD launches $4000 Ryzen AI Halo local AI monster for Windows 11 with 128GB RAM
… AMD has claimed up to 14% higher performance expressed via TPS tokens per second per dollar. Even in the worst case AMD is promising 4% higher TPS/$ than DGX Spark. And compared to Apple Mac Mini M4 Pro, AMD boasts four times better showing on average in generative AI gen AI workloads. …
OpenAI unveils trio of realtime audio models to power next-gen voice agents
… All three models are now available through the Realtime API. GPT-Realtime-2 costs $32/1M audio input tokens, $0.40/1M cached input tokens, and $64/1M audio output tokens. GPT-Realtime-Translate costs $0.034 per minute, while GPT-Realtime-Whisper costs $0.017 per minute. …
Stardock releases DeskScapes 2026 adding live wallpaper support in Windows 11
… Because the process runs on your local hardware and not on a cloud service, there are no tokens or hidden costs, allowing you to fully tap into the power of your CPU and GPU to generate high resolution images. …
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Flash, its "strongest" coding model yet
… Generally available, starting today. 🧵 GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/jLhqozutwG — Google @Google May 19, 2026 Here's how Gemini 3.5 Flash compares with Gemini 3.1 Pro and other models from competitors : Benchmark Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 3 Flash Gemini 3.1 Pro Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Opus 4.7 GPT-5.5 Te… …
The era of unlimited free AI is dead as Google and rivals slam the door shut
… To get 2x the usage limits, you need to buy the Google AI Plus plan, which costs $7.99 per month. Google does sweeten the offer by giving you 200GB of storage space, Omni in Gemini, and AI Inbox in Gmail. …
7 Days: Firefox 'Nova' redesign, free unlimited AI ride is ending, warning from Torvalds
… Ryzen AI Halo: AMD unveiled the new Ryzen AI Max+ 400 PRO series APUs to succeed the Max PRO 300 series. Its freshly baked $3,999 Ryzen AI Halo local AI processing hub is based on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, and will get support for Ryzen Max+ PRO 495 once it becomes available in Q3, 2026. …