Friday, July 31, 2026, marks a pivotal juncture where AI pricing wars, browser cybersecurity, and hardware wallet vulnerabilities collide. OpenAI triggered a massive 80% price slash on Luna, while Google's Gemini autonomously purged 1,072 Chrome bugs. In this Tekin Garage briefing, we dissect Apple's $109B record, the Coldcard Mk3 entropy flaw, and Microsoft Azure crossing $100B in annual revenue.
Friday morning, July 31st, 2026, arrives with positive energy and six major stories that demonstrate the AI price war has intensified dramatically. OpenAI made an unexpected move by slashing Luna model
prices by 80 percent, Google rebuilt Chrome security with Gemini and fixed over a thousand security bugs in two recent releases, Apple announced a record-breaking $109 billion in revenue, the crypto world
witnessed the biggest hardware wallet theft of the year, Morgan Stanley officially entered the crypto ETF market intensifying competition, and Microsoft announced Azure crossing the $100 billion annual
revenue threshold, proving that massive AI investments are paying off. The AI Price War Intensifies as OpenAI Slashes Rates by 80 Percent Thursday morning, July 30th, the artificial intelligence industry
witnessed one of the largest price cuts in its history. OpenAI made an unexpected announcement that it would reduce the price of its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80 percent. This model, which launched just three
weeks ago at one dollar per million input tokens, is now available for $0.20. Output token pricing also dropped from $6 to $1.20. [IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER_1] But Luna wasn't the only model to see a price reduction.
GPT-5.6 Terra, introduced as the balanced model for everyday work, also experienced a 20 percent price cut and is now offered at $2 input and $12 output per million tokens. Interestingly, OpenAI stated
in its official announcement that this price reduction resulted from optimizations made by the Sol model itself, which managed to rewrite its own inference stack. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, tweeted briefly
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