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AI News
Amazon's own pricing example had 200,000 scanned form pages read by three different people each, every month, for $12,200 and no hiring. On September 30 that stops being something you can buy, and the reason is not that it stopped working.
AI News
The supplier portal your team re-keys by hand every week is the one system nobody could ever automate, because it has no API and the screen-scraping bot broke every time the vendor moved a button. On Wednesday that stopped being true, and the thing it replaces costs $215 a month per concurrent job.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The six-step flow that has handled every inbound lead for two years costs about two thousand tasks a month and never surprises you. Every vendor now wants you to rebuild it as an agent. The test for whether you should is one sentence long, and the vendors published it themselves.
AI News
Google Workspace Studio could draft the email. On Monday it got permission to send it, running under an identity an admin can audit and revoke. The catch is buried in three italic notes: none of that governance applies to a single flow you have already built.
AI News
On August 14 Claude Code stops asking permission before every command on Pro, Max, and Team plans. Anthropic published the study behind the decision, and the finding is not that the machine got smarter. It is that in a controlled test, the humans clicking through those prompts caught a dangerous command 13.6 percent of the time.
Vibecoding News and Updates
GitHub stopped taking new Spark users on Tuesday, and you have until August 31 to export what you built. In the same four days, coding agents learned to run overnight on your own hardware and commit the work themselves. The trade is real, and the part nobody wrote down is what happens to the approval prompt when nobody is at the keyboard.
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