2026-10-14 18:26 UTC
DANGMUAAI & Developer Tools, Decoded

Latest

IndustryOct 13, 20263 min read

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.

AI ModelsOct 13, 20265 min read

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.

IndustryOct 13, 20263 min read

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.

IndustryOct 12, 20263 min read

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.

InfrastructureOct 12, 20265 min read

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.

AI ModelsOct 12, 20264 min read

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.

Dev ToolsOct 11, 20264 min read

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.

AI ModelsOct 11, 20266 min read

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.

AI ModelsOct 11, 20263 min read

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.

Dev ToolsOct 10, 20264 min read

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.

AgentsOct 10, 20266 min read

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.

InfrastructureOct 10, 20263 min read

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.

AI ModelsOct 09, 20263 min read

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.