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ChatGPT charges $19.99. Meta just walked in at $7.99.
Meta is charging for its AI chatbot for the first time.
The plan costs less than half of ChatGPT Plus.
It starts in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia.

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Meta launches AI chatbot subscriptions at $7.99 and $19.99

Meta sells AI chatbot subscriptions for the first time with Meta One Plus at $7.99/month and Premium at $19.99/month, rolling out in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia.
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During its AI on the Lot event on Wednesday, the company announced the launch of its new Gen AI Creators' Fund, under Amazon MGM Studios and Amazon Web Services.⁠
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The three new projects for Prime Video, all produced with the help of Project Nara (an Amazon AI tool) are: Love, Diana Music Hunters, Cupcake & Friends (from BuzzFeed Studios) and Punky Dunk. The new creators' fund is aimed at financing startup projects for filmmakers and digital creatives using AI tech. With Project Nara, they'll be able to access Adobe Suite, Maya, Kling and other tools to bring their stories to life, some of which will hit screens as a new TV show or movie. ⁠

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satanboy said:
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During its AI on the Lot event on Wednesday, the company announced the launch of its new Gen AI Creators' Fund, under Amazon MGM Studios and Amazon Web Services.⁠
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The three new projects for Prime Video, all produced with the help of Project Nara (an Amazon AI tool) are: Love, Diana Music Hunters, Cupcake & Friends (from BuzzFeed Studios) and Punky Dunk. The new creators' fund is aimed at financing startup projects for filmmakers and digital creatives using AI tech. With Project Nara, they'll be able to access Adobe Suite, Maya, Kling and other tools to bring their stories to life, some of which will hit screens as a new TV show or movie. ⁠

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Will be interesting to see the viewing stats and ratings on these AI projects.
 
I took a turn to check out X after a long time. The amount of kak the okes are using Grok for is unreal.
 
Ecco said:
I took a turn to check out X after a long time. The amount of kak the okes are using Grok for is unreal.
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And then people blame AI slop. All of it is just human slop, being made faster and more accessible by AI tools. Much like the “speed kills” & “guns kill” arguments blaming the tools.

These tools just help expose the ‘shallowness’ of humankind
 
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An unidentified major corporation burned through $500 million in a single month on Anthropic’s Claude AI platform after failing to implement any spending caps or usage controls on employee licenses, according to an AI consultant report published by Axios on May 29, 2026. Thousands of employees used Claude freely with no guardrails — generating what token-based AI pricing turned into a half-billion dollar bill in 30 days. The incident triggered immediate corporate-wide reckoning. Microsoft simultaneously cancelled most of its internal Claude Code licenses — the largest enterprise-scale AI spending pullback of 2026 — while Uber admitted burning through its entire 2026 AI budget by April.

The story lands as a watershed moment in enterprise AI adoption. Corporate leaders at Costco, Delta, and IBM have begun publicly questioning whether AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. Engineers at some firms were individually generating $500–$2,000 in monthly AI costs with no measurable productivity gains attached. The era of “turn on AI for everyone and see what happens” appears to be ending — replaced by role-based access controls, hard monthly spending caps, and output audits. The unnamed company’s disaster is being widely described as the cautionary tale that finally forced corporate America to treat AI as a financial risk, not just a competitive imperative.

Sources: Axios, Tom’s Hardware, Android Authority, Tech Startups, AI Weekly
 
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