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AI Daily for 02 August: Cursor Usage Costs, Seedance 2.5, AI Finance Advice, Flint Chart Language
AI Daily for 02 August recaps 5 major AI Hacker News stories, moving through cursor usage costs, seedance 2.5, ai finance advice, flint chart language.
1. Cursor Usage Costs
The next story is about Cursor users reacting after the company removed dollar cost information from the usage page and CSV export for self-serve plans, with an official forum reply saying the token-only view is a deliberate design choice, which matters because developers lost a direct way to audit per-request AI spending and model efficiency. Hacker News treated it mainly as a transparency and trust problem, while also…
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