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Nvidia enlisted six Wall Street firms to fund AI data centres it will not put on its own books. The number is a 500 billion dollar target, not money in the ground. Andreessen Horowitz raised 1.1 billion dollars to fund AI hardware. The firm that said software eats the world is now buying the plumbing. OpenAI is cutting off Cursor’s access to its models. Model supply is now a lever labs can pull against rivals they distrust. OpenAI retired the o3 model family from ChatGPT on 26 August 2026. The move closes a ninety-day sunset window and pushes remaining reasoning-model users toward GPT-5.6 or the pricier o3-pro tier. OpenAI’s one-year deprecation clock on the Assistants API reaches zero today. The company’s own documentation shows no sign of a reprieve, even as independent confirmation that calls are now failing remains thin. Nvidia is reportedly raising AI server prices more than fifteen percent. Memory, not the GPU, is now the cost that moves the bill. Nvidia enlisted six Wall Street firms to fund AI data centres it will not put on its own books. The number is a 500 billion dollar target, not money in the ground. Andreessen Horowitz raised 1.1 billion dollars to fund AI hardware. The firm that said software eats the world is now buying the plumbing. OpenAI is cutting off Cursor’s access to its models. Model supply is now a lever labs can pull against rivals they distrust. OpenAI retired the o3 model family from ChatGPT on 26 August 2026. The move closes a ninety-day sunset window and pushes remaining reasoning-model users toward GPT-5.6 or the pricier o3-pro tier. OpenAI’s one-year deprecation clock on the Assistants API reaches zero today. The company’s own documentation shows no sign of a reprieve, even as independent confirmation that calls are now failing remains thin. Nvidia is reportedly raising AI server prices more than fifteen percent. Memory, not the GPU, is now the cost that moves the bill.
Model prices /1M out
Qwen3.8-Max $6.00 —
Grok 4.5 $6.00 —
Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 —
Gemini 3.6 Flash $7.50 —
Claude Sonnet 5 $10.00 —
GPT-5.6 Terra $12.00 —
Claude Opus 5 $25.00 —
Claude Fable 5 $50.00 —
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