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Oracle JDK 21 updates left the free NFTC licence with the 20 October 2026 Critical Patch Update. Oracle's subscription now starts at $100 a year, and three of the four ways out cost nothing.
Manu Shukla 
On July 27, 2026, NVIDIA and 36 partners launched the Open Secure AI Alliance and open-sourced the NOOA agent framework. Most of the tooling predates the alliance. Here is what is new, and a decision framework
Manu Shukla 
LLM API prices run from $0.14 to $30 per million tokens in June 2026, and agentic workloads multiply the bill. Seven free, open-source tools that make engineering teams' LLM spend measurable and attributable.
Manu Shukla 
With 98% of FinOps teams now managing AI spend, LLM cost control is a 2026 priority. Here are 6 free, mostly open-source tools, from LiteLLM and Langfuse to tokencost and OpenCost, to measure LLM spend.
Manu Shukla 