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OpenAI now limits paid ChatGPT accounts per device and card. Its help page covers 5 plans and never says what the limit is.
Headlines on The Decoder's report (1 November 2026) of an OpenAI Help Center page ·
An OpenAI Help Center page says ChatGPT limits how many paid accounts can be used on one device and may block new subscriptions when too many share a card or device. It covers Go, Plus, Pro 100, Pro 200 and Pro 500.
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The policy will likely hit users who've been switching between multiple paid accounts on one device to squeeze more usage out of cheap flat-rate subscriptions.
Musk says Grok Bot costs too much to serve. He gave no dollar figures, and the weekly allowance has no published size in this record.
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Replying on X on 1 November to a user who asked for a usage reset, Musk said the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue, as subscribers reported running through weekly limits fast.
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VitalLaw's headline is accurate: AI-using small firms expect more hiring. It is a survey of owners' expectations, a 10-point gap after controls, and it does not show that AI causes hiring.
VitalLaw, headline of a report published on 22 October 2026 ·
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Correction · 4 Nov 2026
The claim is now VitalLaw's headline of 22 October 2026, captured from its page. A re-check found no news report that presented the survey's expected hiring as hiring, so the story no longer says that coverage dropped "expect". The verdict is still True, but, and the mechanism is still Scope Swap: the finding is about owners' expectations in a survey, and it does not show that AI causes hiring. The sources are unchanged: two receipts now quote longer passages from the New York Fed on its controls, and one adds its definition of the net share. Two receipts that set the finding's limits (it does not establish causation, and actual outcomes are left for future research) now count as context, not as evidence against the claim, because VitalLaw's headline is consistent with them. Previously: The claim was "Feds find small businesses that use AI are more likely to hire", from a headline on 1 November. The story said that headline turned the New York Fed's finding on expected hiring into hiring itself, and praised VitalLaw for keeping the right verb. Corrected: The claim is VitalLaw's headline, "AI-using small businesses expect stronger hiring, revenue growth, Federal Reserve Bank researchers find". The story calls it accurate and explains that the survey links AI use with owners' expectations and does not show that AI causes hiring.
New York Fed researchers Will Aarons and Asani Sarkar reported that, in the 2025 Small Business Credit Survey, AI-using employer firms had a net 33-point expectation of higher employment over the next year, against 15 for non-users.
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those who currently use AI had a 33 percentage point net expectation of higher employment in the next twelve months, while non-users had only a 15 percentage point net expectation
However, even after we include past employment changes in the analysis, the gap in expected employment growth between AI users and non-users remains positive (at 10 percentage points
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