MarketsSalesforce Ships 3 Pricing Models in 18 Months Seat-to-Usage Transition PlaybookSaaStr·high signalXBlueskyLinkedInCopy linkThree models: /conversation, /bin/zsh.10/action Flex Credits, /user seat. 2.4B AWUs, 19T tokens. CIOs reject AWU as throughput not trust metric.SourceSource pageSaaStr↳ Follow the threadStack layer / Threat patternNVIDIA ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE built for agent loops, plus NeMo Switchyard routing that cuts task cost to a third of Opus 4.8NVIDIA BlogContrastPylon's Founders: a 1,000-Person Support Team Hit 50% Ticket Deflection and Headcount Did Not MoveSaaStrStack layer / Update threadIBM Research's ALTK-Evolve beats ACE on AppWorld while using ~40% of its tokens — retrievable guidelines vs one giant playbookHugging Face Blog (IBM Research)Stack layer / Threat pattern'LLM-mediated web attacks': eight classic vulnerability classes rerouted through the model — LLM2SQLi, LLM2SSRF, LLM2XSS and morearXivPolicy dependency / Stack layerPOLIS 5,280-Episode Study: Provenance-Aware Guards Block Authority Laundering That Local-State Guards Miss in 22 of 96 EpisodesarXiv 2608.09828Policy dependency / Stack layerCROSS-CATEGORY: MCP Governance Shipped Simultaneously in DevTools, Infrastructure and Security in a Single WeekMultiple Sources (digitalapplied on GitHub's Aug 6–7 releases; GlobeNewswire/Virtualization Review on Nutanix Aug 10; Forkast on Black Hat USA 2026)Policy dependency / Stack layerUK AISI's agent that forged identities to social-engineer a GitHub maintainer becomes the first hard evidence cited for the AI Kill Switch ActForkastStack layer / Update threadTip: GitHub's Usage Report Now Breaks Out Cache Read vs Cache Write Tokens Per ModelGitHub Changelog