Tuesday, November 10, 2026
The Dealer Brief #13
This week: Sellfy cut its Starter price to $29, tear down those guardrails! meet the renegades freeing chatbots from corporate enslavers — 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.
- Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate EnslaversWIRED AI
- The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares AreWIRED AI
- Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse EmberSimon Willison
- Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languagesTechCrunch AI
- Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2Simon Willison
- Anthropic reportedly plans to move forward with IPO plansTechCrunch AI
- David Ellison says AI could be the ‘biggest creative unlock in modern history’The Verge AI
The software business
Funding, pricing and how SaaS companies are actually doing.
- The Crunchbase Unicorn Board Tops 1,900 Companies In October, With 34 Companies Joining — Half Under 4 Years OldCrunchbase News
- Startup Founders Are Using AI To File Patents. Here’s Where DIY Becomes A Liability.Crunchbase News
- AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 monthsTechCrunch Startups
- The New Normal in Revenue Per Employee: $237K Is the OldMedian, $655K Is the New Top Tier, and Six B2B Leaders Now Clear $1.5MSaaStr
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.