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Workbench Weekly: Cheaper to Build, Harder to Read — Oct 1 – Oct 8, 2026
Building with AI got cheaper this week, and the fine print moved with it: Claude Haiku 5.5's price cut and new tokenizer, GPT-6's Intelligent UI and the Decisions API, Google's Nano Banana 2.1 and a disputed deadline, Grok Bot running on Claude, Meta's agent-access standard, Perplexity's open decision model, and the week five vendors shipped decision models.
This week: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Grok / xAI, Meta, Perplexity, Elsewhere.
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