Tuesday, October 6, 2026
The Dealer Brief #8
This week: Webflow raised its Basic price to $15, amazon alexa plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end — 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.
- Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on endThe Verge AI
- Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AIWIRED AI
- Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the NuanceHugging Face
- Quoting Felix RiesebergSimon Willison
- Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you're running lateThe Verge AI
- MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard ofArs Technica
- OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EUTechCrunch AI
The software business
Funding, pricing and how SaaS companies are actually doing.
- Crunchbase Data Shows AI’s Most Active Startups Are Becoming Serial AcquirersCrunchbase News
- Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources sayTechCrunch Startups
- At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AITechCrunch Startups
- You'll Probably End Up With 40% Of Your Revenue from “International.” Invest Earlier There.SaaStr
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.