OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol API and credit pricing by more than 20% for three months. The Financial Times reported weak corporate demand for Anthropic's highest-end model as cheaper tools gain ground. Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter, placing model routing within a major payments platform. Google received a Marvell warrant tied to custom AI-chip purchases. The article frames these moves as pressure on frontier-model economics, giving enterprise buyers more leverage but also more supplier dependencies.
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