Two vendor moves landed this week that change how AI shows up on your statement and what tools your team can open. Anthropic split Claude Code billing into interactive seats plus a separately metered Agent SDK credit pool — same playbook Microsoft just ran with GitHub Copilot. Google rewires NotebookLM into a real agent and quietly kills the Workspace AI Ultra Access add-on with a July 7 transition deadline. Plus a tips-and-tricks segment on how a model-routing swap and a Perplexity Spaces versus Claude Projects test changed where I spend my AI budget.

What you'll learn:

How Anthropic's split between Claude Code interactive seats and the metered Agent SDK credit pool changes your monthly bill — and what to do before the auto-pay hits.
What the NotebookLM upgrade actually unlocks for board prep and diligence work — and which Workspace seats lose Antigravity, Gemini CLI, and Gemini Code Assist on July 7.
The model-routing hack that cut my high-reasoning Perplexity bill by about 70 percent — and the Perplexity Spaces versus Claude Projects test that changed my mind about where context lives.
The "back door" pricing model that gets a small team onto enterprise-grade security at roughly 3,000 dollars a year.

Sources referenced:

Continuity callbacks: In yesterday's episode titled "Apple Blinks," the thesis was nobody wins alone. In last week's episode titled "The Bill Has Arrived," we covered Microsoft's GitHub Copilot pricing shift to usage-based AI Credits.

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