Claude Billing Paused, Android 17 Launches, SpaceX Soars

That would have been a major change from the current setup, where Agent SDK use is limited only by the standard weekly caps applied to a user’s current Claude subscription tier. Those generous limits allow power users to squeeze a lot more usage out of those paid subscriptions than they would get by paying the same price for API fees.

“If you are a developer using Claude as your primary coding assistant with Opus, you will blow past breakeven in the first week,” developer Matthew Diakonov writes in that analysis.

“For anyone using agents heavily, this is a major cost increase,” the developers behind code editor Zed warned its users after Anthropic announced the Agent SDK price change plans.

On Monday, though, Anthropic gave these power users a pricing reprieve, updating its billing support page to say that it was “pausing the changes to Claude Agent SDK usage described below.” The company says that “for now, nothing has changed” and that it is “working to update the plan to better support how users build with Claude subscriptions.” Some users report receiving similar notices via email from Anthropic.

The sudden pullback on forcing API pricing comes just weeks after GitHub Copilot rolled out its own token-based billing changes, leading to sticker shock for many users who found themselves blowing past the new limits on their subscriptions. It also comes as Anthropic prepares for a possible initial public stock offering by filing confidential papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission .

Following its official debut last month, Google is now rolling out Android 17 to compatible Pixel phones, alongside additional exclusive features as part of the June Pixel Drop. Not every feature announced alongside the OS at the pre-I/O Android Show is available today, though.

Android 17 itself is arriving on Pixel phones today, and Google says other manufacturers will be issuing the update throughout 2026. The biggest user interface update is the introduction of Bubbles, floating app windows that you can open with a long press — similar floating windows are already found in many Android skins, but are now an official part of 17.

The update also includes Screen Reactions, which make it easy to record selfie video while you screen-record, taking the hassle out of recording a reaction video for social media. Foldables are also getting new gaming controls that display a touchscreen gamepad on the bottom half of the display, while the game itself sits on top, and all Android phones will get native controller remappping.

There are plenty of features announced at the Android Show that aren’t included in today’s rollout. Google says that its array of new Gemini Intelligence features will arrive on “select advanced devices” later this summer. Those should include the Rambler transcription tool, AI-generated widgets, and expanded Task Automation.

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SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday.

The newly public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday — its first full day of trading. Tuesday’s news that SpaceX was acquiring AI coding company Cursor , along with the start of options trading on SpaceX’s shares, sent the share price even higher, spiking its valuation to $2.9 trillion before it ultimately settled back down.

This is all despite the fact that SpaceX posted a $4.9 billion loss on $18.7 billion in revenue last year, compared to Amazon, which turned a $78 billion profit in 2025 on $717 billion in sales in 2025. SpaceX has recently added new revenue streams in the form of compute leasing deals with Anthropic and Google, though, and will absorb the revenue from Cursor when that deal closes in the third quarter.

The Anthropic and Google deals are non-binding, but investors don’t seem to mind either way. Elon Musk’s space-and-AI company had added roughly $1 trillion to its valuation since going public on Friday.

That transaction netted SpaceX nearly $86 billion in fresh capital, largely on promises that it can create an AI business worth trillions of dollars — a wild claim for a company that recently tore its AI division down to the studs.

The audited financial statements, obtained by independent journalist Ed Zitron , show OpenAI’s reported revenue growing from $3.7 billion in 2024 to $13.07 billion in 2025. The Financial Times, which reviewed the same documents , writes that the company’s monthly revenues had grown to nearly $2 billion by the end of 2025, suggesting that its ongoing revenue rates continued to grow throughout the year.

But the company’s fast-growing revenues are still dwarfed by its even more significant expenses. OpenAI’s total revenues in both of the last two years were outpaced by research and development alone, which grew from a $7.81 billion line item in 2024 to a massive $19.18 billion cost in 2025.

On top of that, OpenAI’s “cost of revenue” (i.e., the money spent producing and distributing the product) increased from $2.65 billion in 2024 to $7.5 billion in 2025. This cost line likely reflects the significant compute costs incurred at “inference time” as the company’s models respond to a growing number of user prompts.

All told, OpenAI’s day-to-day “loss from operations” increased from $8.78 billion in 2024 to $20.92 billion in 2025, a concerning direction for a company that is telling investors it hopes to be profitable by 2030 . But measured as a percentage of revenues, the company’s operating losses slightly improved year to year, from 237 percent in 2024 to 160 percent in 2025.

Operating numbers aside, OpenAI’s headline “net loss” number of just over $5 billion in 2024 ballooned to nearly $39 billion in 2025. But the 2025 number includes a significant accounting charge related to investor valuations that shifted amid the company’s 2025 conversion to a for-profit structure .

Chinese AI lab Z.ai, the team behind the popular Qwen series of large language models, released the Qwen-Robot Suite on Tuesday, a set of open-weight foundation models built specifically for physical world intelligence and robotics use cases.

The suite includes three core models: a navigation model for robot pathfinding and environment mapping, a manipulation model for robotic arm control and object handling, and a multimodal perception model that processes camera, LiDAR, and sensor data to understand physical environments.

All models support a 1 million token context window, allowing them to handle long-horizon robotic tasks that require memory of hours or days of prior operation, a significant upgrade over existing robotics models with much shorter context limits.

The models are released under a permissive MIT license, allowing developers and robotics companies to use them for free for both research and commercial applications, with no usage fees or restrictions.

Early tests show the suite outperforms existing open-source robotics models on standard benchmarks for navigation accuracy, manipulation success rate, and long-horizon task completion.