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Latest developments in generative AI: model releases, product updates, research, pricing, licensing and ecosystem changes.

Microsoft and Google Both Roll Out New AI Pricing Tiers on September 1
Microsoft Foundry adds regional pricing premiums and Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform starts billing Sessions and Memory Bank usage — both effective the same day.

Prompt-Injection Study: Tested Model-Based Defenses Failed to Protect Secrets
An adaptive secret-extraction study found failures in tested model-based defenses. External output filtering held in that experiment; broader protection is not established.

The Mystery Model That Turned Out to Be Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash
For six days, an anonymous model called 'ox-alpha' ran free on OpenRouter and OpenCode with no declared owner. Then Z.ai confirmed it: the mystery model was GLM-5.3-Flash all along.
