Open weight models processed 71.5 percent of tokens through Vercel’s AI Gateway in September and took nearly a quarter of estimated gateway spending, up from one dollar in twenty in June, The Register reported from Vercel’s data. Gateway spending overall was about 13 times its December 2025 level while the average price per token fell about 47 percent, and almost one in three teams changed their most used provider in September. Chinese models are a large part of the token volume: DeepSeek took 58 percent of tokens for 6.6 percent of spend, and Moonshot’s Kimi took 3.6 percent of tokens and 13.2 percent of spend, figures that now sit under the cloud of China’s proposed export control additions for AI technology reported in the same article. The item is single sourced to The Register reporting Vercel’s published gateway figures.
Anthropic’s own workforce report, published Friday and reported by TechCrunch, shows junior employees in technical departments falling from 21 percent to 14 percent of the workforce since early 2025, with junior technical hires dropping from 27 percent to 9 percent, while technical teams shrank from 61 percent to 56 percent of total staff. Meeting time per employee rose 20 percent year on year, and in an April 2026 survey 20 percent of employees said their job had shifted from doing work to managing Claudes. The report is Anthropic’s account of its own organisation, offered by the company as an indicator of how AI may shift hiring elsewhere.
In developer infrastructure, Node.js creator Ryan Dahl has left Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers, The Register reported, a notable move of a runtime founder from his own venture backed project to a hyperscaler’s edge platform.