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.

17 entries · Aug 26, 2026 to Oct 10, 2026 · 13 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

  9. Sep 28, 2026

    SHIPClaude Code makes Opus 5.5 the default model on Pro and Team plans

    Version 2.1.280 switched Claude Code's default from Sonnet to Opus 5.5 for Pro and Team Standard subscribers, giving those plans 1M context and the new $4/$20 per-million-token pricing by default, not by request. Claude Code changelog

  10. Sep 28, 2026 Updated this evening

    SHIPAnthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 running 30% faster than Sonnet 5

    Sonnet 5.5, released Monday on all platforms, runs more than 30% faster while keeping Sonnet 5's $2/$10 per-million-token pricing; it is the first Sonnet to ship with cyber safeguards and is strongest at well-scoped everyday tasks, code fixes and creating polished documents. SiliconANGLE · TechCrunch

  11. Sep 29, 2026

    SHIPAnthropic opens a directory submission portal for Claude plugins and MCP connectors

    The portal lets any paid Claude plan holder submit an MCP connector or a plugin bundle for review, formalizing the Claude Marketplace that launched two days earlier already listing over 2,000 tools. Claude by Anthropic · Unite.AI

  12. Sep 30, 2026

    SHIPOpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra's price

    GPT-6.1 Sol launched in ChatGPT and the API at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, versus Astra's $10/$50, with near-Astra performance on agentic coding and computer use. An 'Ultrafast' variant generating up to 300 tokens per second follows within days, at roughly six times standard pricing. OpenAI DevDay · TechCrunch

  13. Oct 1, 2026

    SHIPClaude for Government goes generally available on FedRAMP High

    Anthropic's public-sector platform exits beta with usage-based pricing and no seat fees, running inside a FedRAMP High environment. Agencies get Claude Code and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access without needing a separate cloud-provider relationship. Anthropic

  14. Oct 4, 2026

    SHIPOpenAI launches a $500-a-month ChatGPT tier

    The new 'Pro 500' plan offers 25 times the Plus usage allowance and exclusive access to an accelerated model variant, alongside 'Dots,' always-on agents that connect to more than 4,000 outside services. AlternativeTo

  15. Oct 8, 2026

    SHIPAnthropic cuts Haiku's price 90% with Haiku 5.5

    Haiku 5.5 now costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts under 100,000 tokens, down from Haiku 4.5's $1/$5 - matching GPT-6 Luna's price. Anthropic · Anthropic pricing

  16. Oct 8, 2026

    Google halved Nano Banana 2.1 image-generation prices on Gemini 3.6 Flash, to $0.034 per 1K image. AI Weekly

  17. Oct 10, 2026

    SHIPClaude Code halves Sonnet 5.5's cache-read price

    Version 2.1.296 cut Sonnet 5.5's cache-read price to $0.10 per million tokens from $0.20 - a quiet cost cut for anyone running high-volume cached prompts through the Anthropic API. Claude Code v2.1.296