MixRoute Confirms Claude Fable 5 Support, Giving Developers One-Key Access to Both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6

Users can call Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 today and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna as soon as the family reaches ...
PC Tech Magazine

The End of the Subscription Stack: Why One Platform Now Covers Images, Video, and Audio

According to the site, this includes Nano Banana for image generation and editing, Gemini Veo for video creation, plus ...

US court halts alleged subscription empire that hid fees, blocked cancellations, and made $250M

The FTC filed the case in California's Northern District federal court after a 2-0 commission vote, alleging violations of ...

Prepare to expect less from your cheap AI subscription

Fable 5, Anthropic’s best model in general release, won’t be included in Claude subscription plans. Expect Anthropic's competitors to follow suit.
Redmondmag.com

Anthropic Claude Goes GA in Microsoft Foundry

Anthropic's Claude family of AI models is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, giving enterprise developers another frontier model they can deploy, manage and govern through ...
Budget and the Bees

Subscription Cancellation Must Be as Easy as Signing Up: New York’s FY26 Budget Targets “Dark Patterns”

New York’s FY26 budget targets deceptive dark patterns by requiring subscription cancellation to be as easy as signing up.
Cars and Horsepower

GM’s Secret Plan: How Your Next Car Will Nickel-and-Dime You For Features It Already Has

When General Motors CEO Mary Barra casually noted that software-enabled features were seeing "subscription take rates exceeding expectations" during the Q1 2025 earnings call, it sounded like a bland ...
TechCrunch

FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement

A new lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a showcase of how hard it’s become to police the app stores for scammy apps. The suit alleges that a company known as Genesis Tech ...
IEEE

Exploring Factors Influencing the Continuous Use of Autopay and Subscription Services

Abstract: Autopayment and Subscription services have become increasingly embedded in digital consumer behaviour as users find their convenience and practical value highly beneficial. This research ...
TechSpot

A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential

Bottom line: The math behind AI subscriptions is starting to look uncomfortable. Flat monthly pricing helped fuel the rapid adoption of tools like ChatGPT and Claude, but new analysis suggests those ...
BGR

This Open-Source App Lets You Use Your Whoop Band Without A Subscription Fee

Sick of paying steep, ongoing subscription fees to use your fitness tracker? An app called Noop aims to rectify that, at least in the case of the Whoop Band (or you could skip the Whoop entirely for ...
justthenews

Washington Post facing class action lawsuit for using reader data to set subscription prices

The Washington Post is facing a class action lawsuit over the publication's use of reader data to set subscription prices. The practice, known as "surveillance pricing," offers different prices to ...