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Thursday, October 8, 2026
Oct 8 · closedPast monthTodayLevelDow+0.1%51,232Nasdaq−1.3%27,193S&P 500−0.5%7,765Bitcoin−2.0%$81,64110-yr Treasuryin points−0.055.23%

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The read: A sharp day: the Nasdaq is down 1.3%. The month is mixed across the indexes; Bitcoin has been climbing this month.

Industry · GPT-6 in ChatGPT

OpenAI says ChatGPT can now build you a calculator inside the chat

A new GPT-6 model reaches ChatGPT's Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans first, Free and Go follow Thursday, and Enterprise depends on workplace admin settings.

A glass and wood office building on a San Francisco street corner, seen from across the intersection under a pale blue sky crossed by overhead wires, graded blue; Wikimedia Commons says the building housed OpenAI's headquarters when the photograph was taken. At the upper left, in large white type with a dark glow around the letters: OpenAI says ChatGPT can now build you a calculator. A thin cyan line runs from the end of that sentence down to a white card tilted over the building's upper right, headed Savings calculator, with two cyan slider bars and a rising line; the card is an illustration, not a screenshot of ChatGPT. Near the foot, in dark letters on a bright cyan bar: Free and low-cost plans get it a day later. At the lower left, small credit lines read PHOTOGRAPH: COOLCAESAR, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, CC BY 4.0 and CALCULATOR CARD: AN ILLUSTRATION.

Oct 8 · 3 min read · Morning Byte · by Keith Andrade

The three takeaways

  1. ChatGPT's maker says its new model can build a savings calculator in the chat.

  2. The new model reaches Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise first, Free and Go Thursday.

  3. On Enterprise, whether you get the new model depends on your admin's settings.

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Apple's glass cube store on Fifth Avenue, graded blue: Apple's logo hangs high inside the glass, above a crowd of shoppers in winter coats walking and standing in line on the plaza. At the right, a tall portrait panel in a thin cream frame shows the head and shoulders of a smiling person with short grey hair and a grey beard, in a dark jacket over a collared shirt, toned in navy and cream against a dark navy background. At the left, in large white type with a dark glow around the letters: AI's memory shortage raised what you pay for a MacBook. Below it, in dark letters on bright cyan bars: It gave Micron its best year. Under that, small white capitals read MICRON CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE. At the lower left, small credit lines read PHOTOGRAPH: JORGE LÁSCAR, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, CC BY 2.0 and PORTRAIT: MICRON TECHNOLOGY.
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Industry

Technology and work
LinkedIn's headquarters in Sunnyvale in daylight, graded blue and darkened slightly: a curved glass office building among tall trees, with LinkedIn's tall blue in logo sign standing in a planted bed at the lower left. Across the top, in large white type with a dark glow around the letters: Scammers hijack verified LinkedIn accounts. Below it at the left, in dark letters on bright cyan bars: A job seeker keeps reporting them. Under that, small white capitals read LAID-OFF COPYWRITER, FAKE-JOB HUNTER, just above the sign. At the right, a tall portrait panel in a thin cream frame shows the head and shoulders of a smiling person with a full beard, in a dark jacket, collared shirt and patterned tie, toned in navy and cream against a dark navy background. Under the panel, two small credit lines read PHOTOGRAPH: LPS.1, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS and PORTRAIT: THE PROFILER (THEPROFILER.ORG).

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Microsoft's Redmond campus plaza in sharp daylight, graded blue: glass and timber office blocks around a courtyard where a young tree stands and a few people walk and sit at tables. At the upper left, bold white capitals read RUNS MICROSOFT'S DIGITAL CRIMES UNIT above a thin cyan rule. Below it, in large white type: Criminals rented an AI to read stolen email. The last words, in dark letters on bright cyan bars, read Microsoft took it to court. At the right, a tall portrait panel in a thin cream frame shows the head and shoulders of a smiling person with short dark hair and rectangular glasses, in a pale open-collar shirt, toned in navy and cream against a dark navy background. Under the panel, two small credit lines read PHOTOGRAPH: MICROSOFT, MORNING BYTE and PORTRAIT: INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY.

Microsoft disrupted a $500-a-month service whose AI read stolen inboxes and recommended targets

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A photo inside a Kroger store's produce section. An illustrated screen marked Sponsored reads Brands pay to reach you, and a receipt hanging from it reads What you buy helps aim the ads. Words below say you're the customer, and the audience.

Kroger's store sales barely grew, but profit from its ad business rose 24%

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Market

Companies, jobs, and money
Apple's glass cube store on Fifth Avenue, graded blue: Apple's logo hangs high inside the glass, above a crowd of shoppers in winter coats walking and standing in line on the plaza. At the right, a tall portrait panel in a thin cream frame shows the head and shoulders of a smiling person with short grey hair and a grey beard, in a dark jacket over a collared shirt, toned in navy and cream against a dark navy background. At the left, in large white type with a dark glow around the letters: AI's memory shortage raised what you pay for a MacBook. Below it, in dark letters on bright cyan bars: It gave Micron its best year. Under that, small white capitals read MICRON CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE. At the lower left, small credit lines read PHOTOGRAPH: JORGE LÁSCAR, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, CC BY 2.0 and PORTRAIT: MICRON TECHNOLOGY.

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Nasdaq's tower in Times Square at dusk, graded blue: its huge lit Nasdaq sign and logo run across the top, above a curved glass front, food carts and a blurred crowd on the street. At the left, below the sign, a tall portrait panel in a thin cream frame shows the head and shoulders of a smiling person with long dark hair, in a dark jacket over a white collared shirt, toned in navy and cream against a dark navy background. At the right, in large white type with a dark glow around the letters: Your 401(k) keeps buying the AI giants. Below it, in dark letters on bright cyan bars: She worries it pays for the AI after your job. Under that, small white capitals read SOCIOLOGY RESEARCHER, BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY. At the lower right, two small credit lines read PHOTOGRAPH: AJAY SURESH, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, CC BY 2.0 and PORTRAIT: HER OWN SITE (HERAHLEE.COM).

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Portraits of Jensen Huang, labelled Nvidia, and Dario Amodei, labelled Anthropic, side by side with a blue arrow between them, over a dark blue photograph of NVIDIA H100 computer chips racked in a server. A navy card reads: Nvidia wants to buy a piece of its own customer. Beneath it in blue: Last year it pledged up to 10 billion dollars. The same day, Anthropic committed 30 billion dollars to computing that runs on Nvidia chips. A line along the bottom reads: Reuters reports talks, nothing is agreed, neither man is quoted. Photo credits: NVIDIA newsroom for Huang; UK Prime Minister's Office, CC BY 2.0, for Amodei; Geekerwan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0, for the chips.

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Policy

Rules shaping what happens next
A New York City public school in cobalt light, its brick facade and covered entrance walkway behind a magnified school purchase order that reads CLASSROOM AI, ON HOLD, stamped in red EVERY TOOL MUST BE NECESSARY TO LEARNING. A line at lower right reads A coalition recommends what comes back.

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The New York Times building at night, its lit floors rising behind the newspaper's blackletter masthead on the facade, with people and taxis crossing the street below. The top of the picture is darkened so type can sit on it. A small credit line at the top reads PHOTOGRAPH: JLEON, CC BY-SA 3.0, FILING 25-MD-3143, MORNING BYTE. Below it, large white type reads: Microsoft measured what its AI did to news. Then called it, and on a bright cyan bar in dark letters, a doom loop. In the lower right, close to the camera and much larger than the people behind him, a smiling bald man is cut out of a photograph and rendered in cool blue and white monochrome: his whole head and his shoulders in a checked shirt, resting on the bottom of the frame with room above his head, the edges of his shoulders fading into the street. To his left, right-aligned in small capitals, MICROSOFT'S DIRECTOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE.

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The Federal Reserve's headquarters in Washington, two flags flying from its mast above a long marble colonnade: the Stars and Stripes above, and the Federal Reserve's own navy and gold flag below. Three panels sit over the building. A cream card reads THE NEW FED RATE and, in large figures, 3.75% to 4%. Below it a dark panel reads RAISED FOR INFLATION, NOT FOR A WEAK ECONOMY. At the bottom right a studio portrait of a smiling person in a dark suit is labelled KEVIN WARSH, FED CHAIRMAN, next to the words Warsh set the bar. The Fed says it wasn't met. A small credit line reads PHOTOGRAPH: FEDERAL RESERVE, THE ECCLES BUILDING, WASHINGTON, PORTRAIT: FEDERAL RESERVE, and RATE CARD IS ILLUSTRATIVE, MORNING BYTE.

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