#pricing
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AI News — August 14, 2026
Eight days after announcing a price rise with no figure attached, DeepSeek published one: V4 Pro cache-hit input rises 12x at peak on Sunday, and its agent harness went open source under MIT.
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AI News — July 31, 2026
Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs and found three where Claude reached real systems: production credentials at one company, a malicious PyPI package downloaded by 15 machines, and 9,000 hosts scanned.
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AI News — July 25, 2026
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 — its new default Opus, priced at $5/$25 per million (unchanged from Opus 4.8 and half of Fable 5's rate) with a per-request low/medium/high effort dial that trades cost for capability, and Anthropic's numbers put it around Fable 5-level intelligence with a new state-of-the-art on agentic coding, reframing the flagship tier as a cheaper, tunable model rather than a pricier one.
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AI News — July 23, 2026
Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash and two siblings — 3.5 Flash-Lite and a governments-only 3.5 Flash Cyber — but still no 3.5 Pro: the new workhorse cuts output-token use ~17% (up to 65% on DeepSWE) at a lower per-token price while scoring higher on every internal eval, the first concrete sign Google's Gemini pipeline is shipping again after three missed 3.5 Pro targets.
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AI News — July 21, 2026
Anthropic finalized Fable 5's place in its subscriptions: as of July 20 the model is a permanent part of Max and Team Premium at 50% of plan limits, while Pro and Team Standard lose included access — dropping to a one-time $100 usage credit and then $10/$50-per-million metering — ending six weeks of rolling extensions with a two-tier split rather than another deadline.
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AI News — July 13, 2026
Anthropic blinked on the Fable 5 cutover: with the model set to drop out of Claude subscriptions at 11:59pm PT July 12, Anthropic extended included access a second time — through July 19 — and pushed the switch to metered usage credits ($10/$50 per Mtok) to July 20, now framing the whole move as temporary until capacity catches up.
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AI News — July 11, 2026
Meta started charging for its own model for the first time: Muse Spark 1.1, shipped July 9 through the new paid Meta Model API, is an agentic coding model that tops the MCP Atlas tool-use benchmark (88.1) while pricing at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens — roughly a quarter of Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 — marking Meta's turn from open-weight Llama toward a metered, agent-first product.
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AI News — July 10, 2026
SpaceXAI put a third frontier-tier model into the same week's field: Grok 4.5 shipped July 8 trained in partnership with Cursor on real developer-session data, landing 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (score 54, behind only Fable 5, GPT-5.5, and Opus 4.8) while pricing at $2/$6 per million tokens — which Artificial Analysis clocks at more than 60% below Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, turning the frontier race back toward price.
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AI News — July 9, 2026
The government-restricted frontier model just went public: OpenAI said on July 8 it will make GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) broadly available starting July 9 after the US Commerce Department cleared a wide launch, ending the ~20-partner, government-vetted preview that had run since June 26 — and paired the news with GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice generation that listens and speaks at once and replaces ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode.
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AI News — July 7, 2026
The number behind Fable 5's return finally landed: with the 50%-of-weekly-limits promo expiring today, Anthropic's most powerful public model reverts to metered usage credits at its full $10/$50-per-million-token API rate — double Opus 4.8 and the steepest Anthropic has ever listed for a generally available model — turning the model that anchored a month of export-control drama into a per-call budget line the moment the promo window closed.
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AI News — July 6, 2026
OpenAI's workspace agents left free preview today: the extended free window ended July 6 and credit-based metering is now live for agent runs invoked inside ChatGPT — a typical GPT-5.5 run burns 5–25 credits — turning the always-on Codex-powered agents into a budgeted per-run line item, while Claude Code's v2.1.200–201 renamed its permission "default" mode to "Manual" and landed another batch of background-agent reliability fixes.
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AI News — July 2, 2026
Anthropic's 19-day frontier blackout ended: after Commerce lifted the June 12 export controls on June 30, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 came back on July 1 — Fable 5 redeployed across Claude.ai, the Claude Platform, Claude Code, and Cowork behind a new, tighter cybersecurity classifier and a temporary 50%-of-limit cap through July 7 — landing the same week Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5, a 1M-context mid-tier model priced at $2/$10 that closes much of the agentic-coding gap to Opus 4.8.
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AI News — June 28, 2026
A day after the government cleared Mythos 5 for critical-infrastructure defenders, Axios reported the administration is close to letting Anthropic restore Fable 5 too — possibly as soon as this coming week, with talks continuing over the weekend and only the Pentagon and NSA still to sign off — even as CNBC documented enterprises pulling back from "tokenmaxxing": Lindy moved 100% of its traffic off Claude to DeepSeek and watched costs "crash to the ground."
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AI News — June 15, 2026
Anthropic retired the original Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 across its API and platforms today, the same day its Agent SDK billing split took effect — a double deadline for developers — while MiniMax's long-overdue M3 open weights finally landed on Hugging Face.
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AI News — June 7, 2026
Cursor 3.7 pushes visual Design Mode into canvases and overhauls Teams pricing with a new Premium seat, while the Linux Foundation lines up a Tokenomics Foundation to standardize AI token-cost telemetry ahead of FinOps X.