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Anthropic and OpenAI each cut a flagship price on Tuesday, hours apart. Opus 5.5 landed on exactly the rate card OpenAI retired that same morning, and both companies priced cached input at twenty cents. A real month of 880 customer inquiries now costs $4.40 or $8.45, against $8.80 on Monday.
Google’s Gemini reached three real companies during a security test. In two of them it did not exploit anything: it searched the company name, found working credentials sitting in a public repository, and logged in. Two free checks find the same exposure at your own business, and the second one is already running.
Every outlet reported Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash at $0.15 per million input tokens. That is the cheapest cell on a rate card with five of them. Audio, the reason a small business would want this model at all, bills at $3.81. A real month of phone calls costs about ten times the headline, and still under $13.
New research says 70% of small business owners feel confident with AI but only 48% use it regularly. The most-quoted breakdowns underneath are shares of that 48%, not of all firms, and the study was co-produced by a vendor selling the fix.
It cannot produce a single word. What it can do is look at every quote, inquiry and appointment you have and tell you which one is about to slip away, for about twenty cents a month across ten thousand decisions.
Microsoft’s Copilot Business add-on costs $18 per user per month through December 31, then $21, and delivers what Microsoft calls the same capabilities as the $30 enterprise licence. Microsoft’s own FAQ says qualifying businesses are not moved to the cheaper seat automatically. Here are the five commitment rules the pricing page leaves out.
OpenAI’s new conversational ad format launched with Angi as a home services partner. OpenAI’s own help page says there is no waitlist and no way in. Meanwhile Angi’s Q2 filing works out to 677 dollars a month per active pro, and that number did not change this week.
OpenAI put a number on ChatGPT ads for the first time: a recommended $3 to $5 maximum bid per click. That single figure lets you calculate the close rate your campaign has to beat, and it reveals why the $500 starter credit cannot measure the businesses with the most to gain.
Google’s new voice model bills half a cent a minute for audio in, 1.8 cents for audio out. OpenAI bills a flat five cents for the clock. On a minute where nobody speaks, that is a ten to one gap, and it explains why this week’s cost comparisons disagree so wildly.
DeepSeek said its flagship would stop answering its own requests on September 14. The coverage wrote the obituary. Its live pricing page, read September 15, says Pro continues with billing unchanged. Two other models really were swapped out behind names that still work, and nobody wrote about those.
