The Verge 2026-04-24-3
You're about to feel the AI money squeeze
The Verge frames this as consumers feeling the AI squeeze. Read the Cherny quote carefully: Anthropic explicitly named third-party tools as the target, not end users. The businesses being killed are the reseller layer, whose model was pay Anthropic $200 a month and resell $5,000 of value. Direct enterprise customers on correct pricing saw no change. This is not a consumer pinch story. It is a reseller-extinction event, and every startup architected on flat-rate frontier inference is the next OpenClaw.