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This week in AI
What changed and what it changes for you — triaged, not dumped.
SpaceX Closes Cursor Acquisition — the Deal Is Final
Cursor is now part of SpaceX — the $60B acquisition announced in June has closed. Its directory status moves active → acquired; the conditional verdict holds.
DeepSeek V4 Pro GA: API Prices Reported Up to 1,100%
DeepSeek released V4 Pro GA and, per Reuters and Caixin, raised API prices up to 1,100% with peak/off-peak billing. Both DeepSeek verdicts are under re-review.
Pricing
Gemini 3.7 Flash: Google's Coding Workhorse at Half Price
Gemini 3.7 Flash lands three weeks after 3.6 — better on every benchmark Google published, at half the intro price through 2026. The upgrade path is obvious.
Models
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Ships — MAI-Code-1-Flash Retires Sep 10
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is in Copilot — native vision, 22% better Terminal-Bench, a quarter of the cost. MAI-Code-1-Flash deprecates Sep 10.
Models
The week, in one issue
What changed and how it changes our recommendations — including what we filtered out.
Open Weights Flooded the Frontier — and the Price War Went Structural
Open weights flooded the frontier this week — Qwen3.8-Max became the first Max-class model ever open-weighted and Qwen3.8-27B dropped two days later — while the price war went structural in both directions: Anthropic locked Sonnet 5 at $2/$10, and DeepSeek went GA raising prices up to 1,100%. The cheap-model premise we've run this directory on is dead; Grok 4.6 at $2/$6 is its replacement.
What changed our minds
Recommendation flips from this week — with the reason on record.
Conditional
Launched Aug 12 at $2/$6 with a 61 AA Intelligence Index (ties GPT-5.6 Sol, trails only Fable 5 Max) and leading GDPVal-AA — a day-one launch with a single independent evaluator, so conditional rather than recommended.
Conditional
Open weights shipped Aug 14 under Apache 2.0 with 262K native context and single-GPU deployment; vendor-claimed coding/agent gains await independent reproduction.
Acquired
SpaceX formally closed its $60B Cursor acquisition on Aug 15; the conditional verdict holds.
From the blog
The reasoning behind the verdicts, long-form.
The 30-minute automation stack audit
Model deprecations, silent pricing changes, and breaking platform upgrades all landed in the last month. Here's the checklist we run quarterly so none of them surprise us.
Jun 12, 2026
Why we publish verdicts, not reviews
Reviews describe. Verdicts decide. The difference is who carries the risk of being wrong — and we think that should be us, not you.
Jun 2, 2026
The AI Operating Model Journey: From Using AI to AI-Native Operations
Every company is somewhere on the AI maturity spectrum. Most are stuck at stage 1. Here's the four-stage journey from scattered AI usage to AI-Governed operations — and what each transition requires.
May 9, 2026
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