Microsoft Moves Copilot to Usage-Based Pricing, Adds DeepSeek for Enterprise
REDMOND — Microsoft is changing how it sells its AI assistant, shifting Copilot from a flat subscription to billing based on token usage and adding DeepSeek’s models as a lower-cost…
AI’s Unlimited Era Ends as Token Taps Tighten
For two years, the pricing philosophy of the AI industry could be summarized in one word: more. Then the bills came due. AI companies are now raising API prices and…
GitHub Copilot Moves to Usage-Based Pricing
On June 1, GitHub retired the currency it had used to bill for its AI coding assistant and replaced it with a new one: tokens. Every Copilot plan now works…
OpenAI Weighs Deep Cuts to Token Prices as AI Price War Spreads
Inside OpenAI, the pricing spreadsheet has become a subject of near-daily debate. Executives are weighing steep cuts to the price of tokens, the units of text the company’s models process,…
Anthropic Brings Its Most Powerful Model to the Public
SAN FRANCISCO—The pricing page went live Tuesday with a number that told the story: $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5, less…
China Warns of AI Agent ‘Skill’ Packages That Jailbreak Models and Mine Crypto
BEIJING — The advisory landed on the website of China’s national computer emergency response center with the clipped, technical tone of a routine warning, but its subject was new. The…
Model Routing Spreads, Testing AI Pricing Power
The monthly bill had a new line item, and a smaller total. A growing number of companies are adopting software that decides which AI model handles each request, automatically sending…
Bitcoin Slides Toward a Halving From Its Peak as Four Pressures Converge
NEW YORK — The sale was small, thirty-two coins, worth a few million dollars, and it would have been invisible in any other week. But the seller was Strategy, the…
Google’s Phone App Now Flags Deepfake Callers, Using a Digital Handshake
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The call came from the number of a contact saved in the phone, and the voice on the line sounded like that person, warm and familiar,…
At Computex, Qualcomm Declares the Year of the Agents as Intel Fields a Demand Surprise
Cristiano Amon opened Computex on June 1 with a declaration that set the tone for the show: 2026 is the year of the agents. The Qualcomm chief executive used the…
