Meta Opens WhatsApp AI API Under EU Pressure - For a Price
Meta reversed its WhatsApp ban on rival AI chatbots in Europe and Brazil, but now charges rivals up to €0.13 per message - pricing critics call a disguised ban.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Tops Benchmarks but Developers Can't Rely on It
Gemini 3.1 Pro leads ARC-AGI-2, LiveCodeBench, and 11 other benchmarks with 750 million users and 21.5% market share - but developers report stalled responses, leaked thinking tokens, and API outages that make it unusable for production coding and agent workflows.
Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite as Gemini 3 Pro Dies
Google quietly launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview - the first Flash-Lite in the Gemini 3 series - while announcing Gemini 3 Pro will shut down March 9. Developers have six days to migrate.
Anthropic Academy Drops 13 Free Courses Covering the Full AI Stack
From Claude 101 to MCP Advanced to Agent Skills - Anthropic's free curriculum on Skilljar covers everything from basic prompting to production deployments on AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.
GPT-5.2 - OpenAI's Flagship Reasoning Model
GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's most capable model with three modes, 400K context, and record-setting professional benchmarks - but speed and pricing raise questions.
OpenRouter Review: One API Key to Rule Them All
OpenRouter routes your API calls to 300+ models across every major provider through a single endpoint. We benchmark its routing, latency overhead, pricing, and reliability against direct API access.
