Every major model vendor now sells the same tokens twice: once at list price, and once at half price in a slower lane. OpenAI calls it the Batch API. Anthropic calls it Message Batches. Google calls it Batch. All three take exactly 50% off input and output. It is the least controversial discount in the…

DeepSeek repriced its API at 16:00 UTC on 16 August 2026, and the coverage settled on one number: prices up by as much as 1,100%. A second, calmer reading also circulated — that off-peak rates simply match what you were already paying, so nothing really changed. Both are wrong, in opposite directions, and it is…

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna’s API price by 80% on 30 July 2026, taking it from $1.00 to $0.20 per million input tokens and from $6.00 to $1.20 per million output tokens. Most of the coverage framed that as a story about the AI price war. For anyone running a chatbot on a WordPress site, it…

On 21 August 2026, OpenAI cut the API price of GPT-5.6 Sol. Input went from $5.00 to $4.00 per million tokens, output from $30.00 to $20.00. That is a real cut and, if you run a WordPress chatbot on Sol, it lands on your next invoice whether or not you noticed it happen. What I…

On 15 September 2026, Cloudflare changes what happens by default when an AI crawler arrives at a site it sits in front of. The coverage has mostly compressed this into “Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default,” which is close enough to be useful and wrong in the one place that matters: the new default…

In May 2026, two security teams pointed an automated pipeline at the WordPress plugin repository and came back with more than 300 critical zero-days in 72 hours of scanning. The average cost worked out at roughly $20 per vulnerability. This week I ran wp plugin list –update=available against my own site and found eight plugins…

There is a date being repeated across a lot of accessibility content right now, and it is wrong. It is April 24, 2026 — the ADA Title II web compliance deadline. It moved four months ago, and a surprising number of “2026 compliance checklist” articles have not caught up. That sent me looking at our…

Buried in the AI Engine changelog for version 3.7.2, shipped on 20 August, is a one-line security note that deserves more attention than a changelog gives it: “A crafted URL could escape the uploads folder and send any server-readable file to the AI provider.” Read that again slowly, because the interesting word is send. This…

For about a year now the standard advice has been that AI assistants are quietly becoming a traffic source, and that you should be optimising for them. The advice is everywhere. The measurement almost never is. So I measured it on this site. I pulled every query Google Search Console would disclose for mxchat.ai over…

On 13 August Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash and cut the price in half. That is the headline everyone ran. The part almost nobody ran is printed on the same page, in the same table, one line down: the cut expires on 31 December 2026, and on 1 January the price doubles. Both numbers are…