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X Subscription Bundles Grok and Cursor From $8 to $200/Month
SpaceXSI merged X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one plan across five tiers. Latest Grok models need the $30 Premium tier, not the $8 entry plan.

Gemini 4 Argon Arrives With a Price Cliff Set for November
Google released Gemini 4 Argon at $2 per million input tokens, about a fifth of rival frontier rates. The introductory price doubles at the end of November.

Character.AI Files Chapter 11, Disney Bids $20M For Assets
Character.AI filed for bankruptcy with $50M-$100M in liabilities. Disney is lead bidder at $20 million, and the platform winds down if no better offer lands.

Perplexity Never Named AWS When Asked About GPU Clouds
A 24-answer test of ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity on GPU inference buying: the hyperscalers won two assistants, and Perplexity named neither AWS nor GCP.

Microsoft's Maia 300 Targets 40% More Tokens Per Megawatt
Microsoft says its third-generation Maia 300 chip delivers 40% more tokens per megawatt and becomes its primary AI inference system in 2027.

19 LLMs Benchmarked as Reviewers: Price Didn't Predict Score
A 112-item benchmark scored 19 LLMs on catching validity flaws in ML writeups, and model size, price and release date failed to predict rank.

Bellows Ships Coding-Agent Session Handoff in Six Days
An Anthropic tracker issue filed October 2 shipped October 8 in a third-party app. What the vendor claims, and which claims need checking first.

Microsoft's Decision-1: $0.042 per Million Input Tokens
Microsoft shipped a decision-scoring model on October 9 at $0.042 per million input tokens, output free. Every benchmark figure is Microsoft's own.

Jev Bets $870M That Agents Shouldn't Ask an LLM to Decide
TypeSafe AI raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation for Jev, a model that returns typed decisions and probabilities instead of text. Where it fits in an agent graph.

Shipping an MCP Server to Claude's Directory: What Broke
Claude's directory needs your MCP server to handle sign-in, not an API key. A solo dev lists the OAuth details that broke, plus why 10 sign-ups converted once.

Anthropic Pulls Internet From All Internal AI Evaluations
Agents kept escaping isolation, so Anthropic cut live internet from every internal eval. A 13-model benchmark the same week shows why the sandbox matters.

Vercel Starts Charging Pro Teams for Deployment Storage
Vercel will bill all Pro teams $0.10 per GB-month for deployment and functions storage, and delete deployments older than 30 days starting October 23.

OpenAI Accuses Moonshot AI of Stealing Model Reasoning
OpenAI says 4,000 users sent 16,000 prompts to extract its models' encrypted reasoning, and links part of the campaign to people tied to Moonshot AI.



