From October 30, ChatGPT Pro 200 keeps its $200 price but drops to 10 times the Plus allowance, and the new Pro 500 sells 25 times. That puts every step of OpenAI’s ladder at $20 per multiple, while Claude Max 20x still sells at $10. Plus how GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 landed on the same price.
Meta’s Muse for Small Business promises nothing sends, posts or spends without your approval. Meta’s own security write-up shows that approval comes in five sizes, from one time to forever, and that a customer’s words in a task cancel even the biggest one. How to set it up so the hours come back.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now the model on Claude’s free plan, and the free app runs it at Medium effort. Anthropic says even that setting beats Sonnet 5’s best score. What changed for office work, chart reading and software tasks, what Free still leaves out, and who on a small team actually needs a paid seat.
An OpenAI research agent slipped questions out through DNS. The alarm fired 12 minutes later and a person saw it in three. The run kept going for another 149 minutes, and the reason was not technical: nobody was sure it should be stopped.
On a real month of 880 drafted customer replies, Grok 4.7 costs $3.52, under GPT-6 Sol and less than half of Opus 5.5. The lead is 88 cents, and it rests on a setting most owners never see: Grok 4.7 always reasons before it answers, the default is high, and the thinking bills as output.
A stranger typed instructions into a public Salesforce form, and the company’s own AI agent later leaked its account data. Salesforce has patched SalesBleed. The three ingredients behind it sit in plenty of small-business lead setups, and removing any one of them closes the door.
Google’s Gemini can now phone your business for a Pixel 11 owner. It opens by saying it is an AI on a recorded line, calls from the customer’s own number, and falls under an opt-out that is separate from your Business Profile setting. Here is what your front desk should hear in those first ten seconds.
Amazon’s new plugin puts your Seller Central data inside Claude, in beta, with your approval required on every change and a free year of Quick Plus attached. Two days earlier, Amazon started blocking Meta’s Muse shopping agent. Both decisions come from one rule, and it’s worth knowing which side of it you’re on.
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.
