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Cloudflare Clairic Preview: The Model That Extracts Data Without Generating a Single Token

Cloudflare released Clairic on October 19, 2026 — an extraction model on Workers AI that returns typed values from documents instead of generating text. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens with no output charge, because it generates no tokens. It is fast and cheap, but it is an early preview with real limits.

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What Is Muse AI? Meta's Personal Agent — Features, Pricing and How to Get It

Meta launched Muse on September 8, 2026 — a personal AI agent that gets its own cloud computer and works inside your accounts while you are offline. It is free to start, with paid plans at $20 and $100 a month. Here is what it does, what it costs, and the tradeoffs to check before you connect your life to it.

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Inception Mercury 3 vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash: The October 19 Speed Duel, Compared

Inception's Mercury 3 claims 1,068 tokens per second at a launch price of $0.10 per million input tokens. MiniMax's M3.1 Flash charges a flat $0.15 per million input tokens and reports 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1. Mercury 3 leads on vendor-reported speed; M3.1 Flash leads on vendor-reported agentic coding scores — and every benchmark in this story was run by the company selling the model.

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Claude Haiku 5.5: 90% Cheaper Than Haiku 4.5 — With Two Catches

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens for most requests. The headline 90% price cut is real, but a new tokenizer and a 100K pricing cliff change the math. Here are the real numbers, the benchmarks, and who should switch.

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Sora Is Gone: 7 Best Sora Alternatives for AI Video in 2026

OpenAI shut Sora down twice this year. The app and web experience closed on April 26, and the Sora 2 API was retired on September 24. These 7 AI video generators are where creators actually went.

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10 Best New AI Tools You Should Try in 2026

Looking for the best new AI tools in 2026? This guide ranks 10 standout picks — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google Antigravity, Claude Code, n8n, Veo, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney — with honest pros, limitations, and who each tool actually suits.

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