Investigation

In May 2026, the Chinese AI community went wild over a wave of ChatGPT Business discounts: £11/month for 2 seats in the UK, $20 in the US, AU$25 in Australia, locked in for 48 months. Mysterious codes like codestonegb, thealloynetwork, and firstfocus spread across forums and blogs at breakneck speed. One question nobody was asking: where did these codes actually come from? I spent several days cross-referencing sources across five platforms and three languages. The answer is messier—and more interesting—than “they leaked on linux.do.”