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Anthropic restricts Claude Opus access in Claude Code to Pro subscribers only via additional paid tier beyond $20/month subscription.

Anthropic appoints Theo Hourmouzis as GM for Australia & New Zealand and opens Sydney office.

Anthropic has angered Louis Rossmann... [Anthropic deserves mass chargebacks for predatory billing policies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnazGJzK4UY) Interesting suggestion for how to deal with billing errors.

Anthropic restricts Claude Code feature to Pro subscribers, requires separate token purchase for Opus model access.

This is pretty funny tho ngl

Anthropic evaluates Claude models (Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6) for sabotage of AI safety research: finds zero unprompted or continuation-based sabotage.

Hey everyone, For over a week now, I've been trying to re-subscribe to the Pro plan from a free account, and I keep hitting the same wall: "*Payment failed. Please try again later. If the problem persists, contact support at https://support.anthropic.com/*" Here's the fun part: that link redirects you straight to Fin, their AI support chatbot. After 11 emails, the bot's only suggestion is… to go back to that same link. I've attached a screenshot of the last mail. I've already tried multiple devices, browsers, and network connections, double and triple-checking my billing info. I'm based i...

Reddit user reports Anthropic Claude remote environment defaults to GLM-4.7 instead of Claude models, raising questions about model sourcing.

Subscribed to Claude 20 Max two days ago (more than 200 euros/month...). Service was more than underwhelming, so I immediately requested refund after one day and a half and therefore within the 14-day withdrawal period guaranteed by Article L221-18 of the French Code de la consommation (EU Consumer Rights Directive). I wanted to terminate it right away because I am truly unhappy with it. Refused by an AI support agent ("Fin AI Agent") on the grounds that a refund had previously been issued on my account (of 20 euros in the past). This limitation does not appear in Anthropic's published Cons...

Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco.

Reddit user reports Anthropic's support system lacks human escalation path for billing disputes, exposing structural gaps in customer service infrastructure.

Reddit post recounting Anthropic's growth from small user community to $1T valuation amid major cloud partnerships.

In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.

TL;DR: If your git commits mention "HERMES.md" (uppercase), Claude Code quietly stops using your Max plan and starts billing you at API rates. Anthropic's support acknowledged the bug, thanked me for finding it, and refused a refund. Apparently their AI safety principles don't extend to your wallet. **The story** I'm on Max 20x ($200/month). Today Claude Code started throwing: \> "You're out of extra usage. Add more at [claude.ai/settings/usage](http://claude.ai/settings/usage) and keep going." Weird, because my plan dashboard showed 13% weekly usage and 0% current session. 86...

Reddit speculation about Anthropic pricing test reducing Claude Pro usage limits by 50% for subset of users.

Anthropic reduces context window for older Claude models from current capability back to 200k tokens.

Reddit user reports Claude failing at calorie tracking task, requests feature debugging.

Reddit user questions practical use cases for Anthropic's Dispatch feature beyond basic remote task submission.

Reddit post argues Claude Opus 4.7's compute allocation strategy causes shallow reasoning and breaks prompt caching compatibility with 4.6.

This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.

Google invests $40B in Anthropic alongside Amazon's $5B, raising questions about competitive positioning and undisclosed deal terms.

Google announces it will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, its largest single AI investment ever. https://x.com/nolimitgains/status/2047709664423420358?s=46

Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited release of its powerful, cybersecurity-focused Mythos model.

Anthropic, the AI lab valued at $380 billion, has acknowledged that a series of engineering missteps were behind a widely-experienced decline in the performance of its Claude Code tool that sparked a user revolt over the past month. The latest admission, which came after weeks in which Anthropic had initially implied in its communications that nothing was wrong and that users were largely to blame for any performance problems and later said some of the changes had been made for users’ benefit, has done little to calm Anthropic’s customers—some of whom say they have already cancelled their su...

OpenAI and Anthropic job listings show unexpectedly high go-to-market hiring relative to engineering and research roles.

[https://www.anthropic.com/transparency](https://www.anthropic.com/transparency)

Per Bloomberg: > Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between two companies that are at once partners and rivals in the race to build artificial intelligence. > > Anthropic said that Google is committing to invest $10 billion now in cash at a $350 billion valuation, the same amount it was valued at in a funding round in February, not including the recent money raised. The Alphabet Inc.-owned company will invest another $30 billion if Anthropic hits performance targets, the startup said Friday...

Reddit user reports unexpected token consumption increase on Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 MAX plan; possible pricing/rate change speculation.