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Reported, numbers-first breakdowns of how modern revenue teams actually get built — and where the old motions are breaking.
OpenAI is cutting prices to pull Anthropic's largest API customers, The Information reports. Rippling's CEO says OpenAI's share of the company's coding work went from 16% in May to 52%.
OpenAI's Decisions API, in public beta since October 6, returns a probability or a choice instead of text for $0.10 per million input tokens. Perplexity's docs now list $0.02.
Microsoft says its new voice-agent model costs about 60% less than comparable ones, a day after ElevenLabs' tender at a $22 billion valuation. Amazon released a free Jev rival 16 days after Jev launched.
Nebius raises compute prices October 1, and OpenAI signals a $500 ChatGPT Pro Max tier. Every SaaS running AI workloads inherits margin compression or a pricing conversation with its own buyer this quarter.
Akamai gave Anthropic a warrant for up to 5% of its stock to win an $11.6 billion compute deal. Databricks bought Row Zero, a spreadsheet its own finance team used.
The Information reports Google is nearing Gemini 4's flagship release, 12 days after Amodei's slowdown essay. Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 and OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna 48 hours earlier.
