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The Brief — The Independence Day Pricing Massacre
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The Brief — The Great Intelligence Markdown
Opus 5 and a GPT-5.6 price cut turned the AI frontier into a clearance rack —...
The Brief — Read the Asterisk
Every number this week came with fine print: a price that quietly expires on...
The Brief — The Independence Day Pricing Massacre
Over the long weekend, every major AI lab quietly rewrote its price sheet at...
The Brief — Sonnet 5 Eats the Default Slot
Anthropic drops near-Opus performance into the default tier, Google refreshes...
The Brief — California Bets on Claude
The largest US state AI deal puts Claude on every California government desk at...
The Brief — Claude Puts On a Lab Coat
Anthropic sends Claude to the wet lab with a drug-discovery workbench, and...
The Brief — Roll Camera, Roll Models
Video AI just got a fresh coat of paint: KLING jumps to v3.0 and Sakana ships...
The Brief — Agents Get Their Own Invoice
The model providers just quietly split "agent work" out from "chat" on the...
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