Dropbox status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Dropbox reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Dropbox users through our website.

• Errors (50%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Website Down (17%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Dropbox outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	1 month ago
Paramaribo	Errors	2 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	2 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	2 months ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	2 months ago
Madrid	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  𝗦𝗵𝘆𝗻𝗲 (@YuhItsShyne) reported 12 seconds ago

  @zenithfl4re lots of people also use bunkr or gofile if dropbox is giving you trouble and you dont feel like using google drive!

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  yera. (@1stplaceee__) reported 4 minutes ago

  You down for my nasty FaceTime and Dropbox video HMU📨📥💦🍑

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 5 minutes ago

  Files become clutter quietly. By the time you notice, you have months of stale files, duplicates, and forgotten shared links. ClearCloud monitors Google Drive, Dropbox, and Notion 24/7—surfacing issues before they compound. Weekly reports. You approve everything.

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  Boi_Eddi (@3dd1pr1nc3) reported 8 minutes ago

  Your next business idea is probably hiding inside a frustration. Most successful businesses started with: "This is annoying." Uber. Airbnb. Dropbox. Pay attention to problems. Ask: • What wastes my time? • What confuses me? • What do people complain about?

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  Lazar Stojković ⚡️ (@LazarStojkovic) reported 9 minutes ago

  @soltwagner @soltwagner Hi! Bought Cooldock today and loving it so far. A few things: 1. The Dropbox widget doesn't work. (See attached.) 2. The App Switcher widget is broken. It won't switch focus to a clicked app and clicking the Ⓧ removes the app from the switcher for a split second, and then immediately brings it back. 3. A Trello widget (or a few) would be awesome.

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  hiverot (@amusudan) reported 10 minutes ago

  @cowboyshibuya Thanks for the reply! I'm not the most organised, and Ill usually just work on whatever is fun (Or a prerequisite for something that's fun to work on), but I do keep track of ideas, and create todo's and pipelines for things I am sure I want to add or test. For random ideas and todos I use a lot of lists (Dropbox paper, random text files, Notion, Notes app on my phone, Google Docs, etc). And for specific pipelines I use Google Sheets to keep track of what has been done per asset or map or gameplay mechanic (For example my guns spreadsheet has columns for animations, sounds, textures, etc). Big picture design and planning is all on paper in various notebooks and my Calendar app. I don't really track bugs now I just fix whatever pops up when playtesting.

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  Hawk (@iamhawkspire) reported 12 minutes ago

  @TheMilitiaGamer @Google nah lol, i'm just rawdogging without any online backups for my larger files atm. might end up checking out dropbox, tho their speeds are super slow on my end.

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  Sunil Thakare 🇮🇳 🦀 (@thakares) reported 12 minutes ago

  @TLYShortener offering a genuinely useful, privacy-friendly app (no login, no ads) that seamlessly integrates with the company's core product (t_ly short links), is indeed a standard growth tactic seen in tools like Canva, Notion, or Dropbox. The QR app lowers barriers for users while creating natural upsell opportunities: frequent QR creators may later pay for t_ly analytics, custom domains, or branded links without feeling forced. Trade-off is transparent here; users get a solid free scanner but feed data into t_ly's ecosystem, which benefits the provider through increased link volume and potential premium conversions.

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  HodlReaper (@HodlReaper) reported 12 minutes ago

  HE PAYS $8 A MONTH FOR NETFLIX, DROPBOX, AND AN IT DEPARTMENT THAT NEVER SLEEPS. One server. One guy. Zero subscriptions. He runs Debian. Free. No license, no monthly fee. Every app lives in its own Docker container. Like apps on a phone. One breaks, the rest keep running. Claude Code runs the whole thing. It writes scripts. It watches the other apps. At 2 AM, when something crashes, it fixes it before he wakes up. He built his own IT department. It doesn't sleep. It doesn't ask for a raise. Plex replaces Netflix. Every DVD and show he owns streams straight to his family. $15 a month, gone. AdGuard kills ads before they hit the Wi-Fi. WebDAV replaces Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud. Calibre Web holds his entire book library. He mirrored all of Wikipedia. In case the internet ever goes down. He's also building an app on the same server, with its own dashboard tracking rollout errors before they become real problems. Infrastructure scripts watch everything else. Restart what dies. Upgrade what's outdated. He doesn't touch it. Total cost: $8 a month in electricity. Netflix alone costs more than that.

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  Om Modi (@ocmodi21) reported 14 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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  Mayank Vora (@aiwithmayank) reported 15 minutes ago

  In 2010, a developer decided your files should live on your computer, not Dropbox’s servers. So he built ownCloud. It gives you your own private cloud using a spare laptop, home server, or cheap VPS. His name is Frank Karlitschek. Install ownCloud on hardware you control, and you get file syncing, sharing, photo backup, calendars, and contacts through one dashboard. Your laptop and phone can access the same files just like Dropbox. The difference is where those files live. They stay on your server, under your rules. The project grew far beyond one developer’s experiment. CERN, universities, research institutions, and large organizations started using it to keep control of sensitive data. Then something unexpected happened. In 2016, Frank left the project he created and started Nextcloud with a new team. But ownCloud did not disappear. The project kept going, its source code remained public, and people continued running it on their own hardware. ownCloud has since gone through forks, an acquisition, and major rebuilds. Yet the original idea survived: Dropbox rents you space on its servers. ownCloud gives you the cloud itself.

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  leveltu (@leveltu144) reported 18 minutes ago

  Most people look at this box and see a home storage system for old drives. In reality, it can become a small business built around local AI, backups, and private data. The more companies use AI, the faster they accumulate documents, videos, call recordings, knowledge bases, backups, and files for RAG systems. Keeping everything in Google Drive or Dropbox becomes expensive, slow, and risky, so small businesses increasingly need local NAS servers with automated backups and secure private-cloud access. The business model is straightforward. You target small agencies, dental clinics, accounting firms, video studios, e-commerce companies, and manufacturers that already hold 2–10 TB of data but still store it across random external drives. Then you sell them a complete solution: NAS installation, RAID configuration, automated backups, remote access, protection against data loss, and local storage for AI workflows. You can charge €400–€900 for installing and configuring the system, excluding the hardware itself. Monthly maintenance, backup verification, and monitoring can add another €80–€200 per client. Close five companies within the first two or three months at an average setup fee of €600, and you generate €3,000 from installation plus roughly €600 in recurring monthly revenue. Ten clients can produce €1,200–€2,000 per month from support alone. The real profit is not in reselling hard drives. The client pays for the equipment, while you sell the audit, configuration, data migration, automation, and responsibility for keeping the system operational. The service layer can carry far higher margins than the hardware. No one can honestly guarantee income within 90 days, because without sales there is no business. But reaching your first €500–€1,500 per month within two or three months is realistic if you build one demonstration NAS, package the offer clearly, and contact at least 30–50 potential clients every week. While everyone else is trying to make money from another AI chatbot, a more durable business is forming around the infrastructure AI cannot function without: data, storage, backups, and private computing.

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  EVILxJUG (@EVILXJUG) reported 26 minutes ago

  🚨Your goal this week-DELETE your DIGITAL FOOTPRINT!🚨 Let me help you: ——————— ✅Purchase any 1TB-10TB SSD Storage (this is dependent on your needs) or RAID server (can be ridiculously expensive, DO NOT RAID your storage if you do not know how to build, transfer, and manage a RAID!) ✅Have additional SSD storage drives. ✅Download all your media (pic, music, documents, videos, files, etc.) from your cloud services (iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft One, Dropbox, etc.) and store them onto your purchased/physical SSDs as a backup. ✅Permanently, DELETE all your downloaded media files from those cloud-based services. ✅Permanently, clear the trash can (recycle bin), delete your cookies, delete your cache. ✅Tech Experience: iOS 🚨Apple automatically creates backup copies of your files on your devices. 🚨Even after managing or deleting data, you often need to search deep into your file system to permanently delete these original Apple backups.🚨Media transfers to Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) take longer than expected because:✅iOS creates multiple versions of each file during the transfer: original media, optimized media (for better storage efficiency), and backup files.✅All of this processing happens in the background while the transfer is ongoing.🚨DELETE THOSE FILES! ✅Your physical storage (SSDs, NOT HHDs), should be in your “firebag” (emergency bag, in case of fire- to grab and exit immediately to safety), stored in a cool place in your home. ✅After, you do all these things, your cloud-based storages should be freed up! Take down your subscriptions to what you think you should use and afford without compromising finances and data. DO NOT up your online cloud-based storage into the 1TB range EVER again! Limiting yourself to 100-500GB of cloud-based storage will keep you in check to store things physically in your home instead of online (this is healthy for your mental and to safeguard yourself from yourself). 🚨RING Devices!: if you own any ring devices or any security monitoring devices- CREATE A STATIC (NOT DHCP), CLOSED-CIRCUIT environment! Use EVERY protocol and firewalls to maintain your integrity infrastructure. Remove all unrecognized IP devices from YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK! Use ENCRYPTIONS to securely lockdown your network! 🚨DO NOT create a “guest” profile! 🌟Sorry, I’m speaking “nerd” lol, I don’t have time to explain it in laymen’s terms.

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  𝔤𝔞𝔟𝔦 ♡ (@stucklikehoney) reported 26 minutes ago

  if I were to offer a lifetime dropbox, all of my content will go into it. I would add to it as I have new stuff. pictures and videos. pay one time. who would be down?

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  I Have No Pearls And I Must Clutch (@JamesKi26687305) reported 26 minutes ago

  @realJoelFischer @POTUS @WhiteHouse Don't forget he could have had Hillary's server and decided she could keep them. And Anthony ******'s laptop. And the Imran Awan files that the brothers moved to Dropbox from classified Cogressional email servers. He had access to EVERYTHING, and chose to weaponize the FBI.

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  SCRIBEMOON (@SCRIBEMOON) reported 28 minutes ago

  Ok great. What do we do. What can we do. I was told We were the problem, the people who vote on Election Day, we made things go slowly. VOTE EARLY THEY SAID. I voted on May 13 via dropbox. STILL NOT COUNTED. I doorknocked for Spencer. Only threatened once- by a Cedars Sinai young white female doctor. The CORRUPTION is too overwhelming. We need FEDERAL INTERVENTION!

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  mskah🔞 (@mskah_t) reported 30 minutes ago

  I got in touch with the system administrator, and they were able to resolve the issue. It turned out that the problem was caused by an update to the connected Dropbox account.

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  Pixelhop (@pixelhopio) reported 30 minutes ago

  Notion is a walled garden where external AI agents go to die. Don't get me wrong: we've been huge Notion fans for years. Our entire company lived there: dashboards, notes, projects, our collective brain. It was perfect for humans, but then the Agent Era hit and everything changed. We now work with coding agents like Claude Code every single day, and that is where the friction started. Trying to get external agents to talk to proprietary blocks via a slow API is a total nightmare. The rate limits are painful and the structure is just too rigid for an agent to be efficient. We needed that polished Notion feel without the proprietary bloat holding our agents back. So we built Treehouse: a tool that is essentially Notion meets Dropbox. Treehouse is a web-based viewer for a local folder on your computer. The magic is that the folder is automatically synced across your whole team, kind of like a shared drive with a beautiful face. There is no proprietary database: just your files on your disk, exactly where they belong. Because it is just a folder, your AI agents can talk to it directly at lightning speed. No API rate limits or slow responses. I can ask an agent in my terminal to build an HTML page locally and have it render for the team instantly. Reclaiming your data doesn't mean sacrificing aesthetics. We built in advanced theming and custom CSS support: you can even have your agent rebrand your entire workspace for you. Notion was built for humans. In an AI world, we need high-speed playgrounds, not walled gardens. We are planning to open source Treehouse soon. If you want to reclaim your data, let us know! We wrote a blog post about it below 👇

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  uncle ***** (@probinsyacore) reported 31 minutes ago

  nraas still down but a reddit user has saved most of their mods in a dropbox link oh my god sometimes i do love the internet

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  Santiago Bustelo (@sbustelo) reported 31 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport THEY ARE GIVING ME CANNED REPLIES. YOU SCREWED MY WORK AND BURIED ME FOR THE FOLLOWING MONTHS TO FIX UP THE MESS YOU MADE UP WITH MY FILES. I DEMAND A REFUND.

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  Chuck Thies (@ChuckThies) reported 35 minutes ago

  Apples to oranges. 2024 was not a mayoral election. The best comparison is 2022/2026. Last week, mail/dropbox performance was down about 15% as compared to the 2022 primary.

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  Informed Choice 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@DoreyMeryl67438) reported 35 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I have been trying to contact support unsuccessfully. It seems that my account has been deactivated by accident when another account linked to it was cancelled. I would love to hear back on how to fix this issue. My account was recently renewed so should be there. Thanks

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  Teri Radichel #cybersecurity #ai #pentesting (@TeriRadichel) reported 37 minutes ago

  @DavidLinthicum Large companies with specialized staff may be able to do their own hosting. Having done it myself in my own home back in 1999 when yes, people did that, and later in a colocation center. As a security expert, can tell you this is not an ideal choice for most companies. Can’t even begin to explain in this space. There are also performance and scalability issues, management of all the hardware and software, rebooting the servers in the middle of the night when something goes wrong, dealing with outdated hardware and so liability that can be shifted in cloud environments. Capex vs. opex. Yeah not going back there. Even DropBox (article from 2017) still uses AWS to some degree. And for those who want to try to run open stack themselves in this day and age of AI, phew. Capital One tried that. They moved to AWS when a SAN or similar failed and they needed to get up and running fast. The internal cloud was very painful. Not going to defend the breach. Security is hard. As always, throwing off the shackles for some new tech (cloud, AI) is likely not going to work out too well. The only bonus for a company that wants to do this is that there are more tech people out of work. But data center people? Good luck managing all that. Make sure no one has hidden a crypto miner under the data center floor. Yes, that happened.

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  🔆 j i k o ⋆₊ ‧ ˚⊹ 🏜️ (@lisey_ann) reported 40 minutes ago

  @joinautopilot @charliebilello I can see why a bunch of those are sagging (joke? Or maybe I'm not joking): - Snapchat is in decline, less users overall. - Streaming subscriptions are becoming too expensive to keep up w/ inflation - X likely sagging ever since its lead advertisers left - Dropbox: user usage declining? (I use Google drive, Mega) - Alibaba: Chinese knockoffs, not bound to survive long - doordash: getting too expensive, way too many fees whenever I've used it, even WITH the discounts - Roblox: declining corporate - Snap: declining user usage, they constantly advertise Snapchat+ and idk anyone who actually uses that - Facebook: meta's side hussles were failing (notable: metaverse shutdown) - coinbase: app is ALWAYS buggy, slow, Base wallet became infested with scam tokens with no way to report, I personally stopped using it for this reason - pinterest: we just have AI to put together mood boards now, Pinterest not needed - Uber: same fee problem as doordash plus majority of gig drivers in my experience are the same few Indian drivers - uipath: likely not keeping up with the AI agent competition - bumble: women are probably tired of it tbh - lyft: same problems as Uber and doordash I can't answer for some others because I'm not as familiar or just can't think of a reason why they have poorer returns, so I dunno.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 42 minutes ago

  The interviewer asked me to design Dropbox file sync. I froze for a minute because I jumped into architecture before I nailed requirements. So I restarted with questions: single user or teams? offline edits? conflict handling? max file size? latency vs battery? Windows/Mac/Linux? end to end encryption? I scoped to: multi-device per user, near-real-time, offline support, conflict resolution, and basic sharing later. Then I wrote the core objects and APIs. Data model: User, Device, File, FileVersion (content hash, size, chunk list), Folder, Cursor/Checkpoint, and an Event log (append-only). APIs: UploadChunk, CommitFile(version, parentVersion), ListChanges(cursor), Download(version), Ack(cursor). Everything is idempotent with content hashes and request IDs. Architecture: client watches filesystem, batches changes, chunks large files, uploads to blob storage keyed by hash, then commits metadata to a strongly consistent store. Server writes an event per commit. Clients long-poll or use a push channel to get change events, then pull missing blobs. Scaling: hot path is metadata and change feed. Partition event logs by user/team, cache cursors, and keep blobs on cheap object storage with CDN for downloads. Dedup by hash saves real money when the same installer shows up on 500 laptops. Background compaction for old versions and tombstones. Tradeoffs I called out: strong consistency on metadata avoids weird conflicts but costs latency on cross-region; eventual consistency makes sync feel faster but harder to reason about. Chunk size trades memory and upload overhead vs retry cost. Conflict policy can be last-writer-wins (simple, lossy) or keep both versions (messy, safer). Failure cases: client crashes mid-upload so you need resumable multipart and garbage collection for orphaned chunks; network ***** so commits must be idempotent; clock skew so ordering cannot trust timestamps; two devices edit offline so you fork versions and surface a conflict file; duplicate events so cursor ack must tolerate replays; permissions changes during sync so downloads need auth checks at read time, not just at commit time

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  Mary, The Other Mrs P 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦📎 (@bvmaryp) reported 43 minutes ago

  @JohnLaMacc What voter fraud? What Dropbox problem?

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  Joshatoshi #BIP-110 (@joshatoshi) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Cryptotea Core apologists want to frame this like it’s just a spam issue. It’s all about data storage and node centralization. Bitcoin, not DropBox.

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  Jürgen Strobel (@JuergenStrobel) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Arthur_van_Pelt You claimed that Bitcoin has a problem for "storing arbitrary data". Photos on Dropbox is a trivial example. Now you're moving the goalposts to subjective, emotional criteria you can't even define well. How much data is "way too too much", and how does BIP 110 solve it?

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  Vladic (@Vladic_ETH) reported 54 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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  mhamn (@hamn_matt55472) reported 56 minutes ago

  @BANANTICHRIST @DesireeAmerica4 I've been bitten at least a hundred times, twice severely, and never reported it because I didn't want to see the dogs put down because their owners are irresponsible. Probably a lot of people like me. Secure your dogs or get a dropbox if you have a delivery, people.