Tuesday, September 22, 2026
The Dealer Brief #6
This week: Webflow raised its Basic price to $15, meta patches muse exploit that let attackers control the ai agent — plus what's free, and what's new in the index.
Prices that moved
Read off each vendor's own pricing page, and their archived copies. Only changes we can separate from our own measurement error are listed.
What moved in AI this week
7 stories worth the click, newest first.
- Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agentThe Verge AI
- Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hypeMIT Technology Review
- I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got WeirdWIRED AI
- Patti Harrison Had Dreams of a Tech Utopia. Silicon Valley Smashed ThemWIRED AI
- Can gzip be a language model?Hacker News
- Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple modelsHacker News
- Transformers now runs llama.cpp quantsHugging Face
The software business
Funding, pricing and how SaaS companies are actually doing.
- Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies DecideCrunchbase News
- As Software VCs Chase SpaceX Alumni, A Defense Tech Veteran Warns Of ‘Tourists And FOMO’Crunchbase News
- The New Career Path: Joining a 0% Grower. Maybe For Many, It's Better.SaaStr
- 20VC x SaaStr: Pacing the Frontier, Meta Ships Muse And It's Great, and Miro Sells for $1.35B After a $17.5B MarkSaaStr
Start free this week
Tools in the index with an ongoing free plan — not a countdown trial.
In the index
A few listings worth knowing about if you missed them.