AI & Business Wire
Sourced coverage of the launches, deals, price changes and rule changes that change how you build, market and sell, with what each one means for a small team.
Two new models, one Monday, lower prices
GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrived at half the price of the models they replace. Claude Opus 5.5 costs about 40% less to run than Opus 5. Here's what changed for builders.
Nvidia buys the home of open models
The platform hosting three million models is joining the biggest AI chipmaker. Jensen Huang says Nvidia hardware won't be required. The deal isn't expected to close until 2027.
Gemini's cheap price has an expiry date
The new Flash model beats the one it replaces at the same price, but that price is introductory. On 1 January it doubles.
Apple wants a cut of your checkout link
Two August moves from Apple change the maths for anyone selling subscriptions through an iOS app. Neither is final yet.
Your code editor now belongs to SpaceX
The all-stock deal for Cursor's parent, Anysphere, closed on 14 August, two months after it was announced. What it means for the developers who use it hasn't been said yet.
Airtable sells for about 2.7x revenue
An $11 billion darling of the last cycle sells for $1.285 billion in cash. The multiple says more about 2026 than it does about Airtable.
The EU's AI rules: what actually landed on 2 August
High-risk obligations slipped to December 2027. Transparency duties for anyone shipping chatbots or AI-generated content to EU users applied on schedule.