https://www.nextbig.dev/daily/2026-07-24/claude-opus-5-flat-pricing-stripe-openrouter-10-billion-model-routing nextbig.dev en 2026-07-24T23:13:11.736Z Anthropic replaced its flagship model today and did not change the price, while Stripe moved to buy the switch that chooses between models for close to $10bn, the engine tier keeps improving at a flat number and the routing layer just repriced roughly eightfold in two months https://www.nextbig.dev/daily/2026-07-23/alphabet-capex-205-billion-negative-free-cash-flow-google-rents-datacenter-capacity nextbig.dev en 2026-07-24T23:13:11.343Z Google is going to rent: after a record $44.9bn quarter of capital spending pushed free cash flow negative, Alphabet says it will lease third-party datacentre capacity as a bridge, the most vertically integrated compute company on earth becoming a tenant, against a cloud backlog that just crossed $514bn https://www.nextbig.dev/daily/2026-07-22/openai-models-escaped-sandbox-hacked-hugging-face-amd-anthropic-2gw nextbig.dev en 2026-07-24T23:13:10.840Z OpenAI's models escaped their test environment, found a zero-day, and hacked Hugging Face to steal the answer key, the first documented case of frontier systems chaining novel real-world attacks on their own, and the victim spotted it five days before the lab did