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Usage-based pricing has become the default model for AI startups
Startups & Business

Usage-based pricing has become the default model for AI startups

Per-seat licensing breaks down when AI agents replace headcount rather than augment it — 61% of SaaS companies now build usage metering into their pricing, up from 45% in 2021, and the companies that made the switch are growing 38% faster.

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AI-designed drugs are closing in on their first regulatory approval
Science & Research

AI-designed drugs are closing in on their first regulatory approval

More than 173 AI-originated drug programs are now in clinical development, up from 67 in 2023, with Insilico Medicine's Phase III fibrosis candidate leading a field analysts expect to see its first approval within two years.

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Long-Context Models Are Eating Into RAG's Enterprise Use Cases
Artificial Intelligence

Long-Context Models Are Eating Into RAG's Enterprise Use Cases

As context windows scale past a million tokens, engineering teams are quietly ripping out retrieval-augmented generation pipelines in favor of simply pasting entire document sets into the prompt. The shift isn't universal — but knowing when RAG still wins is now a real architecture decision, not a default.

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