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On August 24, Cursor increased included usage without disclosing the magnitude of the increase and changed Auto billing from a flat rate to per-model billing; Z.ai changed its coding plan from prompt counts to token quotas; Atlassian re-measured automations by step count.
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10/11/2026
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