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Anthropic now bills refusals that return nothing — in the three categories where its own docs say benign work gets caught
On 24 September 2026 Anthropic resumed billing for Claude API refusals that arrive before any output, in three of five categories: bio, frontier_llm and reasoning_extraction. You pay the full input rate for an empty response, the request still consumes rate limit, and when fallback is enabled you now pay for the refused attempt and the retry. Anthropic's own category table says beneficial life sciences work and benign machine learning work can trigger two of the three billed categories, and no false-positive rate has been published.
Read story →Salesforce moved the reasoning into Claude — and the meter that would bill it is three blank lines on its own rate card
AIforce, announced at Dreamforce on 15 September, puts Salesforce inside Claude through a prebuilt MCP server with 37 sales skills. The reasoning now happens on Anthropic's side, which means Anthropic's meter runs and Salesforce's mostly does not. Salesforce's own Flex Credits rate card already names the three usage types that would bill this traffic — Headless Platform Interaction, Record Operation, Process Invocation — and lists all three as TBA, unmetered, with 30 days' notice before that changes.
Read story →Salesforce shipped agents that work for weeks onto a meter that bills by the action — and put the cost controls in fiscal 2028
Over 10-11 September Salesforce closed its $3.6B Fin acquisition months early, previewed a Trusted Enterprise AI Harness to govern every agent in the enterprise, and made six of seven named Agentforce agents generally available on a new long-horizon runtime. The agents that spend are live now. The AI Control Plane that manages cost begins rolling out in early fiscal 2028. Salesforce published no price for any of the seven, and no guidance on how many billable actions a week-long autonomous goal consumes.
Read story →GitHub Copilot's price did not change today. Your included budget fell by up to 44%.
The promotional AI credit allowance GitHub gave existing Copilot Business and Enterprise customers for June, July and August 2026 ends on 1 September. Business drops from 3,000 to 1,900 credits per user per month, Enterprise from 7,000 to 3,900. Seat prices are unchanged, so nothing shows up on the invoice line you watch. Teams that measured their usage during the transition and concluded they were fine measured against a cushion that no longer exists.
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