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Mistral Large 4 launches as a public preview while vetted partners get reduced moderation. A third case of access split by audience; weights due by month end.

Argon, Mythos, Sol: evocative AI model names sit on access split by plan and surface. OneHuman's read: check the spec sheet, not the name.

OpenAI's tweet names 3 models powering ChatGPT Voice. Plus gets none in Chat; only Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise do.

Meta's Muse AI agent outpaces ChatGPT's early downloads and daily users, per third-party data. The free tier's usage cap stays undisclosed.

xAI shifts X Search API billing from $5/1,000 calls to $5/1,000 posts + $10/1,000 profiles, effective Sept 21, 2026. Developers pay more, not SuperGrok users.

Claude Code's fifth limit extension ran through Sept 13, as OneHuman predicted Aug 27. Sept 14's 'permanent' 25% increase nets a 17% cut from today's boost.

GitHub changed six Copilot defaults in nine days: billing, retention, model access, review cost. List prices held. M365 adds a 60-credit consumer AI sidebar.

Gemini 3.7 Flash's API price doubles Jan 1, 2027, disclosed in a launch footnote. Gemini's usage cap vanished into a marketing multiplier.

Anthropic canceled a Claude Sonnet 5 price hike in writing, with a date. Its Claude Code usage boost has been extended four times with no date past Aug 31.

A 9-vendor scorecard finds no AI company can prove served models match documentation. ChatGPT users found the gap: GPT-5.6 answered by 5.5-mini instead.

DeepSeek's API price hike is reported as up to 1,114%. That's the smallest charge on the bill. Output pricing, up 355-371%, actually raises most invoices.

DeepSeek warned of a 'significant' API price hike on Aug 6 with no figures or date. Independently reconfirmed Aug 12: still neither number nor date published.

Perplexity cut free-tier Research queries from 5 a day to 1 a month. OneHuman's own July 19 report missed the comparison, corrected here.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's API price 80% on July 30, three weeks after setting it. DeepSeek V4-Flash still beats the new rate on both input and output.

Google promised richer Gemini usage breakdowns in May. A July 27 account check finds the same two-bar dashboard, unchanged.

Anthropic and OpenAI both loosened usage limits in July. Every concession was staged or undated. Max keeps it free; Pro now pays per token.

Perplexity sells trustworthy citations. Free-tier testing found broad queries return SEO aggregators, not journalism, while narrow queries hold up.

Five Mistral announcements since May 28 — all enterprise, research, or robotics. Vibe subscribers: zero consumer updates in 47 days amid a ~$23B raise.

OpenAI merged ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas on July 9. Free users get GPT-5.6 Terra, not Sol. Atlas closes August 9 — bookmarks don't auto-migrate.

Microsoft 365 prices rose 5–43% July 1. Copilot Chat bundled into base plans. Standalone Copilot now $21/user/month permanently. The framing gap is the story.