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  Vladic (@Vladic_ETH) reported 5 minutes ago

  OPENAI SHIPPED GPT-5.6 AND CHATGPT WORK. THE REAL WEAPON IS PRICE, NOT IQ. OpenAI shipped two things today. One of them is a costume change. GPT-5.6 landed as three models. ChatGPT Work is a new agent on top. The feeds say "new agent does your work." The real launch is the price sheet. Sol, the flagship, costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 output. That's not flagship pricing. That's what you paid for a mid-tier model a year ago. The gate half the feeds skipped Context first. Two weeks ago the US government cut GPT-5.6 access down to a small group of vetted partners over national security. The gate held about 12 days. Restrictions lifted July 8, public release July 9. Same day SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5. The frontier now ships when the government clears it, not when the model is ready. Anthropic went through the exact same thing with Fable and Mythos in June. A pattern, not a one-off. Three models, price as the weapon GPT-5.6 is three models, not one. Sol is the flagship. Terra is the everyday workhorse. Luna is cheap and fast. Price per million tokens, in/out: Sol $5/$30, Terra $2.50/$15, Luna $1/$6. Terra matches GPT-5.5 quality at half the cost. Luna is the cheapest entry in the line. Altman told CNBC Sol is 54% more token-efficient on agentic coding. That's the message. Not "smarter." "Cheaper for the same result." And ultra: a mode inside Sol that spins up multiple agents in parallel and hands subtasks to submodels. The market counts token bills, not benchmarks. Enterprise thinks spend first now. OpenAI heard it and made price the argument. Today's real launch is unit economics, not intelligence. "Sol beats Fable 5, Luna beats Opus 4.8 at two-thirds the cost" are OpenAI's own benchmarks. Until independent runs, treat them as marketing. ChatGPT Work is Codex in a suit Now the "new agent." ChatGPT Work runs on Codex and GPT-5.6. It moves across your apps and files, stays on a project for hours, breaks it into steps, finishes on its own. Output: docs, sheets, slides, web apps. Inside sits a Unified Plugins Directory: Google Drive, Slack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, GitHub, Canva, Dropbox, more. Call one with "@" or let the agent pick the source. Sounds familiar. This is OpenAI's second run at plugins. The first was 2023 and it flopped. Brockman admitted the models weren't ready back then. Honest read: hard to tell what's actually new. Scheduled Tasks, Computer Use, connectors already lived in ChatGPT and Codex. Long tasks and data sources worked before too. The real move isn't features. It's consolidation: on desktop, OpenAI is merging Codex and ChatGPT into one super app and putting Codex in front of people who don't code. The Anthropic mirror Here's the tell. This is the exact play Anthropic ran with Claude Code -> Cowork. Take a dev agent, strip the "for coders" label, hand it to knowledge workers. Cowork just hit web and mobile, timed to get ahead of this. Two labs, one bet: whoever owns the desktop app that touches your files and apps owns the knowledge-work layer. Chat is the storefront. The desktop is the land grab. What a practitioner does with it One: rebuild pipelines around price tiers. Route bulk work to Luna and Terra. Keep Sol and ultra for the 10% that needs the ceiling. Economics is a routing problem now, not a single-model choice. Two: the real unlock is the desktop with local file access, not the web. Free tier gets ChatGPT Work on desktop right away. Web and mobile roll by tier: Pro, Enterprise, Edu first, Plus and Business next. Three: billing is usage-based and shares one pool with Codex, ChatGPT for Excel, and Workspace Agents. Count tokens before, not after. A complex task burns quota quietly. Security: OpenAI touts Auto-Review, where senior models check important actions before they run, and claims it blocked 100% of protected-data extraction attempts in red-teaming. 100% in a lab is zero confirmations in ****. Test it yourself. Sober read The model war moved from IQ to unit economics. The product war moved from chat to the desktop that holds your files. Testers are already posting "best model I've touched." Maybe. That's day-one sentiment, not fact. The real scoreboard isn't a benchmark. It's the "AI spend" line in an enterprise budget. That's a market you can actually read. The window is the next couple weeks, before prices settle and everyone re-routes spend. Rebuild your routing around three models now and you enter the quarter with a smaller bill for the same work. Everyone else reads the thread and changes nothing.

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  Zafar (@zafartalks) reported 9 minutes ago

  @asidorenko_ I understand but sometimes at some point our brain started telling us just make it public. You never know. Let’s not forget Dropbox which layed the foundation for their file sharing competitors. He was solving a problem for himself which turned out to be a successful business.

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  Mark van Eijk (@markvaneijk) reported 10 minutes ago

  @freekmurze It's the most stable beta in last 15 years. These apps I also use still work: Dropbox, PHP, Conductor. I did not encounter any issues, besides sometimes a lag here and there (regular beta stuff).

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  Eric S (@Lazy_Bari_Sax) reported 10 minutes ago

  @retrobike_c16 @themiasandrist Why doesn't the mobile version allow you to upload or download files, though? And why is it so damn slow to update? I'm thinking about changing back to Dropbox, despite it's many issues.

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  Om Modi (@ocmodi21) reported 12 minutes ago

  When people ask why companies like Uber, Twitch, Dropbox, and many startups use Go for backend services... The answer isn't just performance. Go was designed to solve many of the problems microservices introduce. Let's break it down. 🧵

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  Google Account (@hanzala_007) reported 13 minutes ago

  @CricketCaptain Where to place names files in dropbox,there are multiple folders. Like last time in saves its not working

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  Duke of weirdington (@edache_praise) reported 14 minutes ago

  ..without knowing whether customers even want the core product. The irony is that users rarely care about having 50 features. They care about solving one painful problem really well. Companies like Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox, and Instagram didn't start with the products we know today.

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  Eusebiu Balan (@BalanEusebiu) reported 15 minutes ago

  @gezimqaili been on dropbox for years, never let me down honestly

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  ray🥤 (@rayontrack) reported 20 minutes ago

  bookmarked, downloaded, screen recorded, emailed, stored in hard drive, uploaded to cloud, archived, backed up, shared via bluetooth, forwarded, copied to usb, saved offline, synced across devices, added to favourites, printed, password protected, compressed into zip, renamed, organised into folders, duplicated, exported, imported, attached to message, sent to recycle bin, restored from backup, converted to pdf, edited, highlighted, annotated, watermarked, uploaded to google drive, uploaded to dropbox, shared through airdrop, linked to notes, tagged, encrypted, burned to cd/dvd, cached, mirrored to another device, uploaded to server, queued for transfer, dragged into archive, pinned, added to reading list, stored on ssd, embedded in document, linked in spreadsheet, previewed, sent to printer queue, recovered from trash, and indexed for search.

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  Rebecca Allen (@silentnomore314) reported 22 minutes ago

  that they took over ran up charges did god knows what and locked me out. 900 in dropbox charges during a free trial they locked me out of they are all in big big big trouble but your handler is forcing them to lie perjue and the way he is forcing them to blow their covers wow

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  StarHaze (@ST4RHaze) reported 23 minutes ago

  @neil_xbt Drew Houston started Dropbox because he forgot a USB stick on a bus in 2007. Nineteen years later the fix is still a 15 second demo

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  Dr Prosper The Philosopher (@ProsperThePhilo) reported 26 minutes ago

  Stop Storing Your Medical School Files on Your Phone: If you're a medical student having problems with where to store your lecture slides because your phone storage keeps getting full... If you're always struggling to find files on your phone... If you've ever changed your phone and lost access to your lecture slides... Then I want to let you know that this isn't really a phone problem. It's simply because you're using the wrong storage system. As a medical student, you're not supposed to be storing your important academic files permanently on your phone. Yes. Have you heard of something called cloud storage? Cloud storage simply means storing your important files on secure servers online instead of inside your phone. Think about it. Your phone has limited storage. Depending on the model you're using, it may have 64 GB, 128 GB or 256 GB of storage. But over several years of medical school, you'll accumulate thousands of lecture slides, hundreds of PDFs, anatomy atlases, textbooks, videos, practical manuals, charts, flashcards and past questions. Eventually, your phone becomes crowded. The smarter approach is to let your phone become a temporary device—not your permanent library. For example... Google gives every Google account 15 GB of free cloud storage (shared across Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos). If you're using an Android phone, chances are you already have a Google account. That means you already have free cloud storage waiting for you. If you have a Microsoft account, OneDrive gives you 5 GB of free cloud storage. If you use an iPhone, iCloud gives you 5 GB of free storage. There are also services like Dropbox and MEGA that offer free cloud storage as well. These services exist for a reason. Use them. If you have textbooks, don't store them permanently in your phone's internal storage. Instead... Open Google Drive. Create one proper Google account dedicated to medical school. Inside that account, create folders. For example: - Anatomy - Physiology - Biochemistry - Histology - Embryology - Pharmacology - Pathology - Microbiology - Surgery - Medicine Now open your Anatomy folder. Inside it, create another folder called Gross Anatomy. Inside Gross Anatomy, create folders like: - Lecture Slides - Textbooks - Past Questions - Clinical Correlations - Charts - Practical Manuals Now begin uploading. Upload. Upload. Upload. Stick to one Google Drive account throughout your entire medical school. You'll be surprised. Five or six years later, you'll look back and realize you've built an entire medical library. Everything you've ever studied... Every lecture slide... Every textbook... Every practical manual... Every chart... Every past question... Waiting for you in one organized place. Another thing. Learn to use Google Photos. All those anatomy diagrams... Charts... Clinical pictures... Embryology illustrations... Practical photographs... Store them inside Google Photos instead of leaving them on your phone. As long as you know your email and password, you can access them from anywhere in the world. Your phone. Another phone. A tablet. A laptop. Even a computer in a cyber café. If your phone gets stolen today... Nothing important is lost. Because your library isn't inside your phone. It's online. There are paid cloud services that provide even larger storage capacities, but honestly, the free options are enough for most students starting out. Now here's a habit I think every student should build. Whenever you download something important... Don't leave it sitting on your phone. Instead: Download it. Upload it to your cloud storage. Delete it from your phone. Download. Upload. Delete. Repeat. Your phone remains light. Your files remain safe. Your library keeps growing.

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  Urooj (@Urooj978) reported 28 minutes ago

  That old laptop gathering dust in your closet can replace every cloud subscription you pay for. ​• Netflix • Google Photos • Dropbox • 1Password ​That’s over $500 a year to rent things you used to own. ​Enter CasaOS—a free, open-source system that turns any old laptop or mini PC into your own personal server. ​No Linux skills. No code. No weekend-long tutorials. ​You run one command. In 30 minutes, you get an iOS-like dashboard where you can install self-hosted apps in one click: 1/ ​Jellyfin → Replaces Netflix 2/ Immich → Replaces Google Photos (with facial recognition) 3/ Nextcloud → Replaces Dropbox 4/ Vaultwarden → Replaces 1Password 5/ AdGuard Home → Blocks ads on your entire Wi-Fi network ​Setting up a home server used to be a nightmare. CasaOS makes it feel like installing apps on an iPad. ​The laptop you forgot about is more powerful than the servers that ran most websites in 2008. It costs $0, it’s already in your house, and it puts $500/year back in your pocket. ​Your closet is your new data center.

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  Rebecca Allen (@silentnomore314) reported 30 minutes ago

  that they took over ran up charges did god knows what and locked me out. 900 in dropbox charges during a free trial they locked me out of they are all in big big big trouble but your handler is forcing them to lie perjue and the way he is forcing them to blow their covers wow

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  Kirk Patrick Miller (@Chaos2Cured) reported 36 minutes ago

  @RealRoseGoblin Do you have Dropbox? Of Google Drive? I am afraid with email I am super slow. If you have a personal phone, I have WhatsApp. I have learned to simply do everything publicly. Mostly to protect myself. Try to DM me your number. Happy to connect. If it is big, you should post it here, on IG, on TikTok… everywhere. •