Writing
- Use your Claude or ChatGPT plan for coding agents: which tools are allowed, what they do and what they costAnthropic and OpenAI now take opposite positions on third-party tools that run on a subscription. Here is what each vendor's terms allow, about 40 orchestrators, mobile apps, cloud runners and editors compared on how they connect to your plan, and when a subscription beats paying per token.2026-10-14
- AI video generation compared: Veo, Wan, Seedance, Kling, Runway, HeyGen, Remotion and what a finished video costs (October 2026)Per-second prices, independent quality rankings and capabilities for every major generative video model, avatar platform and programmatic video tool, plus voiceover, captions, music and editing. Then worked costs per finished video for b-roll, explainers, presenters, news recaps and localisation, at 1, 30 and 300 videos a month.2026-10-13
- Voice AI compared: speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agents from ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google and 20 others (October 2026)Prices per audio hour, per million characters and per minute of conversation for every major speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice-agent API, with independent benchmark results and what self-hosting open models on Modal, Baseten or RunPod costs. Then rules for picking one for agents, transcription, narration, captions and dubbing.2026-10-13
- A database per agent: Turso, Neon, Supabase, Cloudflare D1 and Durable Objects compared on idle cost, limits and cold startsWhat an idle database costs, how many you can create, cold starts, branching and backups across Turso, Neon, Supabase, Cloudflare and more, with rules for picking one.2026-10-08
- Where should your agent run code? 15 hosted sandboxes compared on price, network controls and SDK supportHourly list prices for the same sandbox differ about 5x, idle-shutdown settings can matter more than the rate, and most products let your agent reach the whole internet by default. We compare 15 products on price, network controls, isolation and framework support, and end with rules for picking one.2026-10-02
Daily
- Haiku 5.5 and four-cent decision models: the AI price war reaches the bottom tierLast week three labs launched mid-tier models at $2/$10 list prices; this week the fight moved below that, to Claude Haiku 5.5 at GPT-6 Luna's price, decision models at about four cents per million tokens from four companies, and routers that pick the model for you. Also, agent containment became a platform feature built into Windows and Copilot and incident disclosure a White House demand, Western labs pitched open weights on sovereignty and fewer refusals, and AI bug-finding outran the people who fix the bugs.Saturday, 10 October 2026 · Saturday edition
- Claude Haiku 5.5 launches at $0.10 per million tokens, matching GPT-6 LunaAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 costs 90% less than Haiku 4.5 on prompts up to 100K tokens and ties GPT-6 Luna on price, Sonnet 5.5 cache reads are halved, and ChatGPT moves to GPT-6 with Intelligent UI. Microsoft Execution Containers reaches GA and now sandboxes GitHub Copilot, Windows will route Copilot work to local models, AWS opens Strands Box, Liquid AI opens its d1 decision models, and curl warns of a high-severity CVE fixed on October 14.Wednesday, 7 October 2026
- Containing agents stopped being the labs' private problemIn the week OpenAI launched its most autonomous agent and shelved its next model over safety, containing agents became a product, a legal demand and an operating-system rule. Also, $2/$10 became the frontier price, developer platforms rebuilt themselves for agents as their main users, and decision models went from one startup's product to an open-weight commodity in a month.Saturday, 3 October 2026 · Saturday edition
- OpenAI launches Dots, agents that keep working after you log offAt DevDay, OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computer, and GPT-6.1 Sol, which brings near-Astra coding to $2/$10 per million tokens. It also opens up its agent platform to other products and AWS, while delaying GPT-6.1 Astra over safety and apologising to Australia. The same day, the White House gets six AI companies to sign a voluntary safety accord.Tuesday, 29 September 2026
