The terms keep moving

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google keep changing what developers are allowed to build on, retiring products, cutting off a customer, trimming limits and billing a new way.

8 entries · Aug 26, 2026 to Sep 27, 2026 · 6 editions

  1. Aug 26, 2026

    ACTOpenAI sets November 30 shutdowns for Agent Builder, the Reusable Prompts API and the Evals Platform

    it points builders at Promptfoo for evals and at moving prompt text into application code. Self-serve fine-tuning ends January 6. Deprecations

  2. Aug 28, 2026

    ACTGoogle dates the Gemini omni preview endpoint for removal

    gemini-omni-1.1-flash went GA August 27 with video extension and 4K output; gemini-omni-flash-preview stops serving September 30. Anything pinned to the preview string needs migrating. Changelog

  3. Aug 30, 2026

    ACTOpenAI cuts Cursor off on November 12

    The reason is Cursor's owner, not its product: OpenAI says it cannot be confident SpaceX will stay inside its terms. Nearly four years of partnership ends. OpenAI

  4. Aug 30, 2026

    ACTAnthropic trims Claude Code weekly limits on September 14

    The temporary 50% boost becomes a permanent 25%. Anthropic's own wording: "a 17% reduction in weekly limits." Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise. BleepingComputer

  5. Aug 30, 2026

    Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown says Claude stays in Cursor, with more compute behind it. Cryptopolitan

  6. Aug 31, 2026

    SHIPOpenAI bills some customers only for completed tasks

    Outcome-based pricing for major accounts, reported by The Information on August 30. OpenAI has not said how it decides a task succeeded, which is the clause that determines the bill. PYMNTS

  7. Sep 15, 2026

    SHIPPalantir, Nvidia and Booz Allen restrict Claude over data retention

    Anthropic's enterprise customers are pulling back over its 30-day retention policy — Nvidia is routing sensitive work to its own Nemotron models instead. Anthropic responded with self-hosted logging under customers' own encryption keys, rolling out this fall. The Information

  8. Sep 27, 2026

    Frontier pricing is dropping without giving up quality, not just cutting into weaker models

    Zvi Mowshowitz argued Sept 26 that Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1-level output at roughly 40% lower cost, with markedly better prose. Simon Willison's Sept 22 read of the same release flagged GPT-6 Luna pricing at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens against a 20% Opus price cut. Two independent practitioner reactions to one release, four days apart. Zvi · Willison