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▮#API & Pricing

Tools10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Amazon's Alexa+ goes free for all US Prime members

The upgraded assistant, previously a paid tier, is now included at no extra cost across the Alexa app, devices and the web.

Tools10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Google's NanoBanana 2 Lite generates images in under 4 seconds

Priced from $0.034 per 1,000 images, the lightweight model beats the original NanoBanana on quality while cutting generation time sharply.

Tools9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Meta launches $299 AI glasses line without Ray-Ban branding

The new 26-style line, co-developed with EssilorLuxottica, runs the same Meta AI system as the rest of the lineup at a lower price point.

Business8 Jul 2026 · 1 min

GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing, adds $100 Max plan

The shift away from flat-rate pricing began June 1, alongside a new premium tier aimed at heavy agentic users.

Business7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Report: Altman weighs giving the US government a 5% OpenAI stake

At OpenAI's current valuation, the proposed stake would work out to roughly $320 per American household, according to reporting on internal discussions.

Business7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Cohere raises $450M from Nvidia, Salesforce and Cisco

The enterprise AI company is targeting a second-half 2026 IPO after securing backing from three of the industry's biggest strategic investors.

Tools6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

xAI's Speech to Text API goes generally available

The API supports transcription across 25 languages with both batch and streaming modes, rounding out xAI's developer-facing audio tooling.

Tools6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Google ships Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image

The two new image-generation models split the market by use case: Flash Image for high-volume, cost-sensitive generation, and Pro Image for quality-first work.

Prompting6 Jul 2026 · 2 min

Prompt caching, explained: how to cut LLM API bills by 90%

Every major API now offers prompt caching, but most teams still pay full price. Here is how cache breakpoints, TTLs and prefix design actually work. Demo content.

Business4 Jul 2026 · 2 min

OpenAI restructures API pricing around cached and batch tiers

A simplified three-tier structure — realtime, cached, batch — replaces the growing menu of per-model discounts. Most workloads get cheaper, some get sharply more expensive. Demo content.