OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol Costs Half Price on OpenRouter. OpenAI's Own Price Card Has Not Moved.
A widely shared 'OpenAI cuts prices 50%' is a discount at one gateway. Call the API directly and you still pay $5 and $30.
6h ago
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AI Agents
ByteDance's Doubao Now Drives Windows Apps — in a Desktop That Leaves Your Mouse Alone
No MCP, no API, no plugins. The assistant reads the screen and clicks, in an isolated session so it does not fight you for the keyboard.
8h ago
AI Agents
Cursor Started Hosting Code on Monday. It Is an Early Beta That Syncs With GitHub.
Three days after becoming a SpaceX subsidiary, Cursor began rolling out its own forge. The shipped feature is bidirectional GitHub sync, not a GitHub replacement.
8h ago
Google AI
Relay Is Shutting Down and Its Founder Is Google's New Chrome VP. Nothing Was Acquired.
The talent moves to Google, the product dies, and the cap table receives nothing — because there is no acquisition for it to receive anything from.
9h ago
Marketing AI
Higgsfield Quadrupled to $5.4bn. Nobody Divided: That Is 7.7 Times Revenue.
Every write-up leads with the 4x step-up in eight months. The more interesting number is the one it implies — a multiple far below what frontier AI commands.
10h ago
AI Models
DeepSeek's New Prices Took Effect at 16:00 UTC. Cache Hits Cost Twelve Times More.
DeepSeek twice warned of a "significant" increase without naming a number or a date. Both have now arrived — and the largest rise is not the one being quoted.
1d ago
Anthropic
Claude Was Down for 36 Minutes, Not 42. It Started as an Authentication Failure.
Anthropic's own status page closes the incident six minutes before the figure now in circulation — and lists the API among the services affected.
1d ago
Finance AI
DoiT Bought a Tool That Bills Individual AI Agents. The Reported Price Is About $65m.
Enterprise inference spend has grown messy enough to need its own accounting layer — and consolidators are paying roughly five times invested capital to own it.
1d ago
Google AI
Google Switches Off Three Imagen 4 Endpoints Today. The Replacement Returns One Image at a Time.
Migrating is not a model-string swap: the method disappears, the response shape changes, and batch generation goes away.
1d ago
Finance AI
Stripe Is Reported to Have Signed a $7bn Deal for OpenRouter. Neither Company Has Said So.
The price is more than five times a valuation set 13 weeks earlier — and every figure in the story is an unconfirmed one.
1d ago
AI Agents
Alibaba's Office Agent Now Ships Its Two Biggest Rivals' Models as One-Click Options
DeepSeek V4 Pro and Zhipu's GLM-5.3 sit in a 'frontier models' tier inside an Alibaba product. GLM-5.3 shipped Saturday morning in Beijing and was selectable by Sunday lunchtime.
2d ago
Finance AI
SpaceX Closed Its $60bn Cursor Deal. The Price Was Set Back in June.
The 14 August event is the closing, not the agreement. No cash moved — 389,289,254 Class A shares did, at a value fixed by a seven-day average.
2d ago
Finance AI
Dynatrace Is Paying $915m for Arize. That Is a Price on AI Observability.
The largest pure-play deal in the category so far, and an admission from a classic APM vendor that watching models is not a feature it can build in.
4d ago
Finance AI
Databricks Raised $5bn at $190bn. The Number Holding It Up Is $7bn.
Coatue led a round that marks the company 42% above February. The justification is a revenue run-rate growing more than 80% a year — none of it audited.
4d ago
AI Models
DeepSeek Updated Its Flagship and Warned Prices Are Going Up "Significantly"
V4-Pro-0813 adds the Responses API and tool calls. The more consequential line is a note on the pricing page about an imminent increase.
5d ago
Open Source AI
A 40-Minute Window on PyPI Reached 434,000 Build Pipelines
New research reconstructs the March LiteLLM compromise: 2,500+ organisations potentially exposed through a file that ran whether or not you imported the library.
5d ago
Finance AI
Lovable Doubled Its Valuation in Eight Months. Revenue Roughly Tripled.
$400m at $13.3bn, co-led by Menlo Ventures and EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund. Tencent came in as a participant, not a lead.
5d ago
AI Models
xAI Shipped Grok 4.6. It Is the Same Foundation Model, Trained Harder.
An Intelligence Index of 61 and a 500K context, built by post-training Grok 4.5 rather than pretraining anything new. On coding it still trails GPT-5.6.
5d ago
AI Agents
Doubao Now Takes 12% of Every Hotel Booking It Makes
ByteDance's assistant started charging merchants on 10 August. An AI chat surface just became a distribution channel with a take rate.
6d ago
AI Agents
Alibaba Put a Price on Qwen. Video Costs Extra.
Three Office Assistant tiers from RMB19 to RMB128 a month, with quotas up to 20x. Video generation is unbundled and sold by the credit.
6d ago
