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      <title>Groq: Limits changed</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Before: ~30 req/min, 14,400 req/day (llama-3.3-70b) -- After: ~30 req/min, 1,000 req/day, 100K tokens/day (llama-3.3-70b) (Cut happened earlier in 2026; recorded when verified.)</description>
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      <title>OpenAI API: What&#x27;s free changed</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Before: One-time $5 welcome credit for new accounts (discontinued mid-2025) -- After: Daily free-token allowance with API data-sharing opt-in: up to ~1M tokens/day on frontier models, ~10M/day on mini models (Recorded when verified; the data-sharing program replaced the welcome credit.)</description>
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      <title>Google ImageFX / Whisk: removed / shut down</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Was: Free Imagen-family generation with a Google account (Shut down April 2026, folded into Google Flow.)</description>
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      <title>Google Flow: added to the ledger</title>
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      <title>Windsurf: Limits changed</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Before: Monthly prompt-credit allowance -- After: Unlimited Tab autocomplete, ~25 agent (Cascade) actions/month (Pricing overhauled March 2026: credits replaced by daily/weekly quotas.)</description>
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      <title>Gemini: Limits changed</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>chat</category>
      <description>Before: Daily message caps, unpublished -- After: Compute-based caps refreshing every 5 h with a weekly ceiling; 5 Deep Research uses/month (Google switched the free app plan from message counts to compute-based limits.)</description>
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      <title>ChatGPT: The catch changed</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Before: Limits are dynamic -- After: Limits are dynamic; opting out of personalized ads can cut the free cap to as low as ~5 msgs / 3 h (Ads opt-out penalty verified 2026-07-02.)</description>
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