Every issue, newest first.

The deal died 60 minutes before the tariffs hit

Plus: Microsoft cut agent costs 78% and raised completion rates. The receipts are inside.

The $800 import loophole just stayed dead

DeepSeek shipped an open-source Claude Code rival and then raised its own prices.

The US flagship started in Beijing

Plus: four Copilot features die August 18.

A frontier-ish model now fits on the GPU in your closet

Plus: YouTube just doubled what it costs a new creator to get paid.

The free seat was the funnel

August 26, and it is not a rename

Plus: the MCP spec dropped sessions, and six SQLite CVEs that never existed.

DeepSeek just priced a frontier test at three cents

Plus: YC's QM on GitHub, Astra's Lean proofs, and a 20-minute model-swap audit.

Your dependencies moved. So did the deadline.

Plus: the August 2 rule everyone is racing is mostly not the rule.

The Hugging Face intruder had a badge

Plus the MCP features that were removed and not deprecated, and the price cut that doubles your bill if you read it wrong.

Fauci pled the Fifth 100 times. The vote is Aug 5.

Plus: Stripe wants to pay $10B for a three-year-old startup, and a Word document that worms its way through Copilot.

The AI price floor just moved

Three of your invoices change this week, and the obvious fix for one of them costs triple.

Anthropic just undercut its own best model

Cheaper agents, the 510 billion dollar number fooling founders, and a fusion machine that lit a bulb.