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ProductMeta will cut your AI bill 95% if you let it train on everything you send2026-09-03 · A "Contributor" tier for Muse Spark drops standard token pricing from $1.25/$4.25 per million to 10 and 20 cents. In exchange, every prompt and output feeds Meta's next model, and the rate limit falls to a thirtieth of the standard plan.ProductOpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated 'Critical' for cybersecurity capability2026-09-03 · The rollout starts with vetted defenders in OpenAI's Daybreak program before reaching ChatGPT and the API -- a distinct, later milestone from the Astra math-proof preview this site covered in August, and OpenAI's own safety materials admit the model is also harder to monitor than its predecessor.ProductSpaceXAI opens Grok Bot to the enterprise, three weeks after shipping it without admin controls2026-09-03 · Bots that sign into your tools and keep working while you sleep are getting access, network, and audit controls for IT admins -- governance retrofitted onto an agent product that launched in an unrestricted August beta.ProductGoogle launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, plus a cybersecurity variant restricted to vetted defenders2026-09-02 · The third Flash update in three months ships at introductory pricing of $0.75/$3.75 per million input/output tokens through the end of the year, while Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for governments, critical-infrastructure operators, and software maintainers in Google's new Fairwind Program, finds real vulnerabilities across 20 languages 71% of the time.ProductMeta says Muse Spark 1.3 closes the gap with Claude and GPT2026-09-02 · The new model uses about 25% fewer tokens than its predecessor on the same tasks, and an independent benchmark ranks it just behind Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5. Meta still won't say whether it will open-source the weights.ProductAnthropic splits its flagship model into public Claude Fable 5.1 and gated Claude Mythos 5.12026-09-01 · Same underlying model, two safeguard regimes: Fable 5.1 is generally available with a 75% cut to cache-read pricing and 60% fewer cybersecurity false positives, while Mythos 5.1's looser guardrails are restricted to vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences partners.ProductAnthropic scraps its Claude data-retention mandate after enterprise pushback2026-09-01 · Enterprise Frontier Safeguards moves activity logs into a customer's own cloud account, under the customer's own encryption keys, replacing a June policy that bank security chiefs and other big customers objected to.ProductA leaked Microsoft spreadsheet shows one employee spent $28,000 on AI in 28 days against a $300 median2026-08-30 · Business Insider's review of an internal pay-transparency document found a 90x gap between typical and outlier AI usage inside Microsoft, weeks after a CoreAI memo pushed back on employees running up token bills without checking whether the work behind them was any good.ProductOpenAI says its models now reach 1 billion active users2026-08-23 · The milestone lands under four years after ChatGPT's launch, alongside an 80% GPT-5.6 price cut -- but OpenAI still isn't saying how many of that billion are paying for anything.ProductOpenAI shut down its standalone Atlas browser less than a year after launch2026-08-23 · Atlas stopped working August 9, 2026, folded into ChatGPT Desktop's browser mode and ChatGPT Work instead -- a reversal on the standalone-AI-browser bet, and a useful contrast to Cloudflare's very different agent-browser approach covered here the same week.