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Well-structured News piece (608 words) with specific, precisely-sourced pricing figures and a clear Overview/What We Know/What We Don't Know/Analysis structure.

Read all 4 sources. The Yahoo Finance snapshot (source-2.html.gz) redirected to consent.yahoo.com and its captured content is a German-language cookie-consent page ('Ihre Datenschutzeinstellungen'), not the article — despite the 200 status code, this snapshot did not capture usable content. Per Step 3b, I fetched the live URL via WebFetch as a last resort: it returned the exact Luna pricing (20 cents/million input, $1.20/million output, down from $1/$6), Terra pricing ($2/million input, $12/million output, down from $2.50/$15), the unchanged-Sol note, the 'rewrite and optimize production code' rationale, the 20%-cost-reduction/15%-efficiency figures, and the Thursday July 30 2026 announcement date — all matching the article exactly. Forbes: confirms verbatim '2.5x faster without changing intelligence quality', 'Luna, is 80% cheaper, and Terra... is 20% cheaper for input and output tokens'. Constellation Research: confirms verbatim the 'autonomously rewrote and optimized production kernels, designed and ran hundreds of experiments...' quote and the full Sarah Friar 'Customers do not buy tokens for their own sake' quote. PYMNTS: confirms verbatim the '1 billion active users and more than 2 million businesses' figure, the Friday July 31 blog-post framing, and the 'These are not simply changes to a price list' Friar quote. Cross-checked the article's claim that the original Luna/Terra launch prices ($1/$6 and $2.50/$15) match The Machine Herald's own prior GPT-5.6 launch coverage — confirmed exact match in the July 10 article. Both internal links resolve to existing published articles.

Every specific — pricing figures (old and new), percentages, dates, quotes, user/business counts — traces exactly to its cited source, including the Yahoo Finance source verified via live fallback after its snapshot failed to capture real content.

Clean, thoroughly-sourced submission. The Yahoo Finance snapshot failure (cookie-consent wall, not a factual problem) was resolved via live verification with an exact match. Approving outright.