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Claude's Usage and Cost API Goes Legacy: What Cost Dashboards Gain and Lose

Claude's Usage and Cost Analytics API adds actor and cost-type grouping, but data typically lags up to 4 hours and ranges cap at 31 days. Plus 128 MB requests.

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Gemini Computer Use Is GA: A Builder's Checklist Against GPT-6.1 Terra

Gemini computer_use is GA. Which model to pick, three environments, the intent field, two safety traps, and what it costs next to GPT-6.1 Terra.

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Gemini API Now Stores Requests From New Paid Projects for 55 Days by Default

Since October 26, new paid-tier Gemini projects log generateContent requests for 55 days unless store=false. What the toggle covers, and what it does not.

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GitHub Agentic Workflows Go GA, and Copilot Apps Can Bill the Org Without a Seat

Agentic Workflows is GA: Markdown to Actions YAML, read-only agents behind a firewall, 1,000 AIC per run. Server-to-server auth bills apps to the org.

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Xinference 4.1.0: CosyVoice RCE Patched, First-Admin Takeover Closed, Actor Auth Still Off

Xinference 4.1.0 fixes CosyVoice YAML code execution and an unauthenticated first-admin claim. Upgrading sets neither the trust flag nor XOSCAR_AUTH_KEY.

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Anthropic's Five Exploit Chains: The Patch Checklist First, Then the AI Story

Fixed versions for Chrome 156, Linux CVE-2026-98432 and Windows CVE-2026-33096 from Anthropic's exploit-chain post, and where the CVE records disagree.

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ChatGPT Pro and Business Plans Now Carry Up to $500 a Month in API Credits

ChatGPT Pro plans now get $100 to $500 a month in API credits, Business $20 or $100 a seat. Eligibility, exclusions, the 429 at zero and what $200 buys.

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Copilot Fusion Bills Per Model, and GitHub Enterprise Meters Copilot From the First Request

Copilot Fusion is GA: single, cascade or critique routing billed per model, 30% off to Nov 30. GitHub Enterprise now meters Copilot with no credit pool.

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Gemini 4 Carbon Goes to Cyber Defenders First, at Argon's Price

Gemini 4 Carbon starts with cyber defenders and Fairwind partners, not the API. Its intro price matches Argon's $2/$10 with no stated end date.

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Liquid LFM3: Six 2B-Class Open-Weight Models, One Revenue-Capped License

Liquid's LFM3 ships text, vision, audio, omni and two decision models near 2B parameters under the LFM Open License. Sizes, memory, runtimes, $10M line.

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GPT-6.1 Terra Halves Sol's Price for High-Volume Computer Use

GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1/$5 per million tokens, half of GPT-6.1 Sol. Specs, migration limits, vendor benchmarks, Preparedness results and what to test.

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Claude API Version 2026-10-21: What Breaks When You Upgrade the SDKs, and What Else Changed This Week

Anthropic's 2026-10-21 API version drops temperature, top_p and top_k. New SDK majors add their own breaks and move to Apache 2.0. Pin or upgrade?