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Meta Priced Its First Frontier Model at $4 per Million Tokens, Level With Anthropic's Opus 5.5. Its Shares Closed Up 3.4 Per Cent.

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday, its first frontier AI models since it rebuilt its AI effort 14 months ago. Muse Wonder costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens on the Meta Model API; Muse Wonder Full is sold only inside Muse Code plans of $50 and $200 a month. Meta's shares closed up 3.4 per cent. The benchmark claims are Meta's, and independent testing has only just begun.

By Alison Acosta · October 12, 2026

Technology

Apple's Second Round of Cuts Went After the Content It Has to Keep Making

Apple has laid off a handful of Fitness+ employees, Bloomberg reported, a month after it cut about 200 jobs in its Siri and Vision Pro groups. The numbers are small against a workforce of 166,000. What the two rounds have in common is more telling: in both, Apple cut people who make content, not products.

By Alison Acosta · September 22, 2026

Media

Publishers Stop Counting Free Articles and Start Asking Who You Are

The free-article limit trained readers to wait it out. Publishers are replacing it with a demand for an email address, which converts worse and is worth more.

By Thomas Gutierrez · August 25, 2026

Media

The Print Edition Comes Back as a Luxury Item

Publishers that spent two decades shrinking print are reintroducing it at high prices and low volumes, aimed at readers who already subscribe digitally and want something the feed cannot supply.

By Thomas Gutierrez · August 21, 2026