Truth Check/25 September 2026
“Frontier AI just got 40 to 50 percent cheaper”
The claim as it travelled: the two 22 Sept launch lines read as one cut.
Overstated
The claim goes further than the page that produced it.
Both are the sellers' measurements, one on its own workloads and one against a promotional price; on list prices alone the same usage falls 20-26% at Anthropic.
- Checked Against
- anthropic.com ↗Primary
- Read the Check
- The labs asked the Security Council to take the decisions off them
Altman and Amodei at the UN on Wednesday; what Claude's 'CRISPR-like' enzyme find actually found; and the re-price test for Tuesday's price cuts.
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