Tuesday, October 13, 2026
The Dealer Brief #9
This week: Webflow raised its Basic price to $15, wikipedians believed ai would come and go. they were wrong — 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.
- Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were WrongWIRED AI
- Character.AI files for bankruptcyThe Verge AI
- Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?MIT Technology Review
- The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell CompaniesWIRED AI
- AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their modelsMIT Technology Review
- Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent TrustworthyIEEE Spectrum
- Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse WonderTechCrunch AI
The software business
Funding, pricing and how SaaS companies are actually doing.
- Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace On Why The Best Proptech Bets May Not Look Like ProptechCrunchbase News
- The Latest SaaStr AI Agent Playbook for GTM Is Out: Everything We’ve Learned Running SaaStr on 3 Humans and 21+ AI Agents, In One Handy GuideSaaStr
- Our AI Agent Picked Render Over Railway and Vercel. I’d Barely Heard of It. That’s How You Get Leads in The Agent Age.SaaStr
- Smart ring maker Ultrahuman to roll out biological-age model across UAETechCrunch Startups
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.