I tested ChatGPT-5.4 vs Claude Opus 4.6 — is the $20 upgrade worth it?

Is Claude Opus 4.6 worth $20/month? I ran 7 stress tests against the free ChatGPT-5.4 to compare coding, logic, and daily tasks. Here’s the clear winner.
Virtualization Review

Running AI Natively on Windows 11 Using an eGPU

Tom Fenton reports running Ollama on a Windows 11 laptop with an older eGPU (NVIDIA Quadro P2200) connected via Thunderbolt dramatically outperforms both CPU-only native Windows and VM-based ...
WRAL

Pharmacies can test & treat flu cases immediately this flu season, NC Department of Health says

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesady issued standing orders allowing pharmacists to test and treat influenza. According to the order, pharmacists will be able to ...

Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference

AI reasoning does not necessarily require spending huge amounts on frontier models. Instead, smaller models can yield ...
Idaho State Journal

East Idaho health officials urge HIV testing after alarming spike in cases

POCATELLO — East Idaho is facing a sharp spike in HIV diagnoses, with as many cases reported in the first three months of 2026 as in any full year over the past five years, public health officials ...
Hosted on MSN

Women’s racing rocked by doping case as Italian cyclist tests positive

Italian cyclist Linda Laporta has been provisionally suspended in a doping case after testing positive for a banned substance during the UAE Tour Women, the International Testing Agency confirmed. The ...
WISH-TV

Indiana State Police ramp up cold case investigations with new DNA genealogy team

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Some of Indiana’s oldest unsolved crimes are being cracked, thanks to new funding and a growing state police effort that blends traditional detective work with ...
AZ Central

Flagstaff cold case solved nearly 40 years after NAU student’s death

A 1987 Flagstaff murder case was solved using modern forensic DNA testing. Northern Arizona University student Ina Langstaff was found stabbed to death outside her apartment complex. James Arthur ...
Afro

Pipe bomb case tests limits of president’s Jan. 6 mass pardon

A Virginia man charged with planting two pipe bombs outside of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in D.C. on Jan. 5, 2021 believes the 47th ...
Orlando Sentinel

DNA tests inconclusive in Duckett case, state wants Tuesday execution back on for former Lake cop

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the Florida Supreme Court late Friday to reinstate next week’s scheduled execution of James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer convicted of the ...
Yahoo

Long-cold case shattered as DNA links suspect to savage attack, killing of young woman, investigators say

A Georgia man has been arrested in a decades-old cold case of the rape and murder of a young woman over 40 years ago, authorities announced. Freddie Lee Granger Jr., 68, was charged with one count of ...