What changed in AI models, on the record
Daily and weekly briefs generated automatically from our monitoring data — outages, price moves, launches and retirements — plus analysis and announcements from the editors.
AI model daily brief: October 3, 2026 — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 gets cheaper
October 3, 2026: 1 incident, 21 price changes (12 cuts), 1 retirement.
AI model daily brief: October 2, 2026 — Switchyard lands
October 2, 2026: 5 incidents, 37 price changes (21 cuts), 2 new models, 4 retirements.
AI model daily brief: October 1, 2026 — Pareto 26.10 Preview lands
October 1, 2026: 10 incidents, 24 price changes (14 cuts), 1 new model, 1 retirement.
AI model daily brief: September 30, 2026 — Kimi K3 gets cheaper
September 30, 2026: 3 incidents, 40 price changes (27 cuts), 2 retirements.
AI model daily brief: September 29, 2026 — GPT-6.1 Sol Pro lands
September 29, 2026: 7 incidents, 40 price changes (30 cuts), 2 new models, 2 retirements.
AI model daily brief: September 28, 2026 — Claude Sonnet 5.5 lands
September 28, 2026: 6 incidents, 40 price changes (33 cuts), 1 new model, 2 retirements.
AI model daily brief: September 27, 2026 — DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 gets cheaper
September 27, 2026: 26 price changes (18 cuts), 2 retirements.
AI model daily brief: September 26, 2026 — DeepSeek V4.1 Flash gets cheaper
September 26, 2026: 17 price changes (11 cuts), 1 retirement.
AI model daily brief: September 25, 2026 — Jev Router lands
September 25, 2026: 4 incidents, 40 price changes (33 cuts), 2 new models, 14 retirements.
AI model daily brief: September 24, 2026 — Mistral Large 3 2512 lands
September 24, 2026: 6 incidents, 29 price changes (26 cuts), 3 new models, 16 retirements.
AI model daily brief: September 23, 2026 — OpenAI / ChatGPT incident
September 23, 2026: 6 incidents.