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  1. Program

    Beta extended by four weeks: beta keys are issued until Oct 14 and work until Oct 31; production starts Oct 21

    We are moving the beta calendar published on Sep 9 back by four weeks. Nothing changes for you before Oct 14. The revised dates, each at 09:00 JST: Sep 23 — Generative AI Expo Vol.6 (Hamamatsucho). Public beta demo at the AICU booth; keys are not switched off. Oct 7 — AP pack purchase opens in USD, and we email every account holder the production guide (commercial declaration, auto-recharge, card registration). Oct 14 — no new beta keys are issued; keys issued from here are production aicu_live_ keys. Oct 21 — production operation begins. New keys require a registered card. Oct 31 — beta keys stop working (the same day the beta and the Kumamoto relief programme end). Why: the paid purchase path is not yet open, and the week of Sep 19–24 is taken by the book launch, the expo and the Award first-round deadline. Starting production without a way to pay would be a label, not a launch. Existing aicu_alpha_ and aicu_beta_ keys keep working until Oct 31; expiry never deletes anything — usage history and balance stay, the key simply returns 401. We email the owner a week before any key lapses. Prices are unchanged by this notice.

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  2. Pricing

    X (Twitter) gateway: from Sep 23, profile lookups and post reads are 100 AP per upstream fetch (post reads now include attached media)

    The X gateway (GET /v1/x/*, scope x) lets you read X posts, profiles, timelines and search results through your AICU key. From 2026-09-23 05:00 UTC: GET /v1/x/user/:username is billed 100 AP (about $0.01) per upstream lookup, and GET /v1/x/status/:id is also 100 AP (about $0.01) per upstream fetch. Post reads now return the text, author, created_at and the attached images/videos (media[] with URLs and sizes), so a quote card can be built from one call without screenshotting the page — that is why the earlier 10 AP figure (announced 2026-09-13) is revised to 100 AP. Both are cached (profiles 12 hours, posts 10 minutes) and cache hits stay free; failed upstream fetches are not billed. Account-ownership verification stays free. timeline and search are unchanged at 2,250 AP per successful call. Revised notice published 2026-09-14, 9 days ahead, per our price-revision rule (increases get 7 days’ notice; only HTTP 200 is billed). Agent-readable spec: https://api.aicu.ai/skills/x

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