Oracle's going after existing free instances now. They were only nerfing new VMs before, so I left my 4+16G box untouched thinking it'd survive. Nope.
Oracle's going after existing free instances now
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Cloudflare just shipped Wallets, programmable wallets for AI
agents.Humans fund an Account Wallet, set spending caps, then Virtual Wallets let agents autonomously buy APIs, content, MCP tools via stablecoins + x402 micropayments (payment baked into HTTP requests, no signup needed). Agentic commerce infrastructure just went live. Grab your handle now 👉 cloudflare.pay
CommandCode $1 plan got GPT-5.6-Luna now too, but the credit cap
is just $20, DeepSeek-V4-Pro gives you $40 at the same tier.
Three $10 plans compared.
Last post I mentioned broker sites for flagship models, where you can get pricing down to about a tenth of list. Still too rich for subagents or anything you run all day. For normal use, unless you're doing development or research, I keep landing on the ~30 tier of Artificial Analysis: deepseek-v4.1-flash. Step up to ~40, which is Kimi K3.1 Pro, and the price goes 10x. For DS itself, these three subscriptions are the cheapest route today. OpenDesign Go says $120 of usage, OpenCode Go and Command Code GOAT say $100. Those aren't the same number though. OpenDesign's $120 is one pool shared by 12 models, with a $10 cap per 5 hours. The other two give DS its own allowance and $20 per 5 hours.
SpaceX quietly trimmed Grok Bot's usage limits this weekend.
A lot of users woke up to find their weekly quota had shot from about 50% to a flat 100%, and they hadn't even touched it. Musk confirmed on X it wasn't a glitch. His words: serving Grok Bot "was unsustainably high relative to revenue." So the thing really does cost a fortune to run. That said, I'm seeing the limits roll back to the earlier version. Yesterday it showed 50% used; today I'm at 30%.
