Breaking updates on pricing, features, and changes to AI tools
Anthropic's April email disclosed a 1.67× price jump when it changed Claude Code's default model. The mechanism was in the docs for months. The compounding cost math wasn't.
DeepSeek made its 75% V4-Pro cut permanent and kept its tier free while five labs tightened limits. The price is real. So is the China-jurisdiction question.
xAI cut SuperGrok Heavy's video cap, Musk promised an increase in May, and by June three sources cite three different numbers. Still no published cap.
Class action alleges Anthropic's $200/mo Claude Max 20x delivers 6–8x Pro, not 20x. Filed June 15, N.D. Cal. Allegations unproven. OneHuman documents it.
Google made three structural changes to paid Gemini in 60 days — compute caps, an I/O tier rebuild, a silent $7.99-to-$4.99 cut. No subscriber was notified.
Five AI naming decisions in 60 days — each making tier comparison harder. US Commerce pulled Anthropic Fable 5 mid-subscription. OneHuman documents it.
Anthropic confirmed three limit-draining bugs April 23, reset all subscribers. Six weeks later: two throttle events in 24 hours, one account.
Mistral rebranded Le Chat to Vibe — an agentic assistant with Google Workspace, Slack, and GitHub access. European data sovereignty is the watchdog angle.
Grok now costs $300/month under SpaceX. Consumer AI inside a defense contractor — five governance questions the $1.25T merger never answered.
GitHub Copilot's per-Credit rate is $0.01 USD. Pro plan: $10/1,000 Credits. Agentic sessions consume 3,000–4,000 Credits. Structural overage is the model.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Ads Manager May 21 with a $2.5B year-one revenue target and $100B by 2029. What that changes for the 800 million people on the free tier — and the five questions OpenAI did not answer at launch.
Google I/O 2026 Gemini relaunch: two paywall tiers, always-on Gmail access, and a UI borrowed from Perplexity. What 900M users need to know before upgrading.
OpenAI launched Codex mobile access on May 14 for all ChatGPT plans including free. Claude Code requires paid subscription. The AI coding wars just got a price wedge.
Claude Pro limits doubled, Word/Excel/PowerPoint add-ins GA, and dreaming scans past sessions by default. Three changes this week — what you need to know.
OpenAI replaced ChatGPT's default model, gave it Gmail access, expanded conversation-matched ads, and launched Sheets/Excel sidebars — all in 4 days. 500M+ users affected silently.
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, runs async cloud agents via Vibe CLI, and costs $1.5/M input tokens. Launched April 29 — five days after Copilot's implosion.
DeepSeek V4 preview April 24: V4-Pro at $1.74/$3.48/M — 7x cheaper than GPT-5.5. MIT license, 1M context. China data risk for API users. Free chat app.
GPT-5.5 launched April 23 with API pricing doubled. Claude Opus 4.7 answered in 7 days. GitHub Copilot collapsed the same week. The fixed-price AI subscription model is breaking.
GitHub Copilot removed Claude Opus from Pro plans mid-cycle, no notice. Pro+ quota cut 60% via 7.5x multiplier. Refund window open until May 20, 2026.
Perplexity launches $200/month Personal Computer Mac agent — $2,999 year-one vs Claude Cowork at $240. Privacy class action alleges Incognito mode sent chats to Meta and Google.
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