Tuesday, September 29, 2026
The Dealer Brief #7
This week: Webflow raised its Basic price to $15, how to stop ai agents from secretly collaborating — 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.
- How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly CollaboratingIEEE Spectrum
- Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answersThe Verge AI
- Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filingThe Verge AI
- Making AI an asset, not an expenseMIT Technology Review
- OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety ConcernsWIRED AI
- Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AIWIRED AI
- New Cyber-OSINT model releasedHacker News
The software business
Funding, pricing and how SaaS companies are actually doing.
- MAVI bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountantTechCrunch Startups
- Almost Every Pre-AI Vendor We Use Is Raising Prices for Agent Access. They May Be Building an Agentic Death SpiralSaaStr
- Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises another $140MTechCrunch Startups
- This Early Groq Investor Expects Half Her Bets To FailCrunchbase News
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.