Cline's $10 Plan Bundles Ten Open-Weight Coders

GitHub Copilot Goes Metered - Agentic Devs See 25x Bills

June 30 closes GitHub Copilot's first full month under token-based billing. Some agentic developers are looking at monthly costs 25x higher than their old flat-rate plans.

Cline's $10 Plan Bundles Ten Open-Weight Coders

ClinePass gives developers access to ten curated open-weight coding models for $9.99 a month, betting the agent harness matters more than the model.

California Signs Anthropic Deal for Claude at Half Price

California gives all state agencies access to Claude at 50% off, as Newsom publicly breaks with the federal government's hostile stance toward Anthropic.

South Korea Commits $518B to Samsung and SK Hynix Fabs

South Korea announced an 800 trillion won chip investment plan to build four new fabs with Samsung and SK Hynix in the country's southwest, targeting AI memory dominance through 2035.

GLM-5.2 Review: Best Open-Weight Coder at 1/6 Cost

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 delivers frontier coding performance with open weights and MIT license at roughly one-sixth the cost of GPT-5.5 - but can it replace Claude Opus 4.8?