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OCT
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The DP-203 Azure Data Engineer Associate exam was retired on March 31, 2025. Here is what it cost, what data credentials are live now, and how to build the same proof of skill.

SEPT
23
xAI released Grok 4.7 on September 21, 2026 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens - the same headline price as Grok 4.6 but with a 500K token context window, multimodal text-and-image input, and stronger agentic-coding performance on CursorBench 4.0. Here is the pricing, the benchmarks, and how to access it.

SEPT
23
Meta Connect 2026 starts September 23 with expected reveals: the Watermelon model family, Muse Spark open weights, and Muse Video / Voice Playgrounds for developers. Here is what Meta has already shipped in the Muse family, what is rumored for the keynote, and why the Watermelon model matters for the frontier race.
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