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Warm-toned editorial photo accompanying WebEpex's coverage of DeepSeek V4.1-Flash's new token pricingIndustry Pulse

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Pricing Cuts Cached Token Costs

DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash drops cache-hit token pricing to $0.003 per million off-peak, but doubles during hours that land right in the GCC business day — here's what to check this week.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Meta Business Agent Gets an AI Upgrade From Stilla

Meta bought Stilla.ai on September 9 to accelerate Meta Business Agent, the chatbot already running customer chat for over a million businesses on WhatsApp. Here's what actually changes, and what doesn't, for anyone running WhatsApp automation today.

Prakhar Vohra·5 min
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Google Ads AI Dashboards Are Live: What It Means for You

Google Ads AI dashboards are now live in advertiser accounts, and Performance Max just got a Local Customer Optimization toggle for multi-location businesses. Here's what changed and who should actually act on it.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Meta's Muse AI Agent Launches With WhatsApp Access

Meta's Muse AI agent went live inside WhatsApp on 8 September 2026. Here is what it actually changes for businesses running WhatsApp automation, and what it doesn't.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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GPT-Image-2.5 Is Out: What It Means for Ad Creative

OpenAI's GPT-Image-2.5 launched September 8, 2026 with faster generation and sharper editing, at exactly double the API price of GPT-Image-2. Here's what to check before you switch your creative pipeline over.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Meta Ads AI Connectors: Check Your Permissions Now

Meta opened its Ads MCP server to any developer in July, and the permissions panel it shipped in August defaults to letting connected AI tools edit budgets and create campaigns unsupervised. Here is what to lock down.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
A self-hosted automation workspace at night: a laptop and monitor glowing under a warm desk lamp, papers and reference books stacked nearbyIndustry Pulse

n8n Security Update: 18 Fixes You Need to Apply Now

n8n's 2 September 2026 security update patched 18 vulnerabilities, five high-severity. Here's what changed, who needs to upgrade, and what we checked across our own client builds.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Google's Gemini Agentic Video Understanding Cuts Costs 66%

Google's new agentic video understanding mode for Gemini cuts video tokens up to 88% and cost up to 66% — here's what actually changes for ad and content teams, and what still needs a human.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
A hand holding a smartphone above an open laptop keyboard on a wooden desk, mid customer replyIndustry Pulse

WhatsApp API Pricing Change: What It Costs You Oct 1

Meta ends free WhatsApp service replies and free utility templates on October 1, 2026 — here's what the pricing change actually costs and what to check before the deadline.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min