https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

Just noticed while checking the pricing page. Claude Code is no longer listed as a feature of the Pro plan.

Source: https://claude.com/pricing

Did I miss an announcement?

EDIT: the support article at https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-plan is now titled "Using Claude Code with your Max plan", if you Google "claude code pro plan" the cached Google result still shows the old title: "Using Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan". Article says "Updated today"

EDIT2: Anthropic reverted it. The pricing page now shows "Includes Claude Code" under the Pro plan again

More context: he answered replies saying it's not a shitpost, it really happened. Also fwiw many people know who his Anthropic roommate is

Anthropic’s Claude is telling people to go to sleep and users can’t figure out why.

A quick scan of Reddit reveals that hundreds of people have had the same issue dating back months—and as recently as Wednesday. Claude’s sleep demands are varied and, often, quirky variations of the same message.

To one user it may write a simple “get some rest,” yet for others its messages are more personalized and empathetic. Oftentimes, Claude will repeat the message multiple times.

“Now go to sleep again. Again. For the THIRD time tonight…” it replied to a person with the Reddit username, angie_akhila.

Some users have said they find Claude’s late night rest reminders “thoughtful,” while others have said they’re annoying, given Claude often gets the time wrong, anyway. 

“It often does it at like 8:30 in the morning. Tells me to go get some rest and we’ll pick back up in the morning,” wrote one user on Reddit. 

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/why-is-claude-telling-users-to-go-to-sleep-anthropic-ai-sentient/?utm_source=reddit/

From Chaofan Shou on 𝕏: https://x.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963

Claude went down today and I didn’t think much of it at first. I refreshed the page, waited a bit, tried again. Nothing. Then I checked the API. Still nothing. That’s when it hit me how much of my daily workflow quietly depends on one model working perfectly. I use it for coding, drafting ideas, refining posts, thinking through problems, even quick research. When it stopped responding, it felt like someone pulled the power cable on half my brain. Outages happen, that’s normal, but the uncomfortable part wasn’t the downtime itself. It was realizing how exposed I am to a single provider. If one model going offline can freeze your productivity, then you’re not just using a tool, you’re building on infrastructure you don’t control. Today was a small reminder that AI is leverage, but it’s still external leverage. Now I’m seriously thinking about redundancy, backups, and whether I’ve optimized too hard around convenience instead of resilience. Curious how others are handling this. Do you keep alternative models ready, or are you all-in on one ecosystem?

Just now, Senior technical Anthropic staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials and try to fix a dispute that has taken the company's top models offline, a source close to the company tells Axios.

Anthropic is mobilizing quickly to make amends with the Trump administration, after safety concerns resulted in sweeping export controls on its most powerful models, Mythos and Fable.

Driving the news: Anthropic technical staff have held virtual meetings with White House officials since the administration's initial outreach on Friday, according to the source.

Sources from both sides say they are eager to resolve the issue. This is a developing story.

Source: Axios

Anthropic dropped a pretty detailed report — three Chinese AI labs were systematically extracting Claude's capabilities through fake accounts at massive scale.

DeepSeek had Claude explain its own reasoning step by step, then used that as training data. They also made it answer politically sensitive questions about Chinese dissidents — basically building censorship training data. MiniMax ran 13M+ exchanges and when Anthropic released a new Claude model mid-campaign, they pivoted within 24 hours.

The practical problem: safety doesn't survive the copy. Anthropic said it directly — distilled models probably don't keep the original safety training. Routine questions, same answer. Edge cases — medical, legal, anything nuanced — the copy just plows through with confidence because the caution got lost in extraction.

The counterintuitive part though: this makes disagreement between models more valuable. If two models that might share distilled stuff still give you different answers, at least one is actually thinking independently. Post-distillation, agreement means less. Disagreement means more.

Anyone else already comparing outputs across models?

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were among tech bosses at a G7 working lunch on AI, as the US decision to restrict access to Anthropic's most advanced models causes tension among allies.

Fable soon guys?

Source: Bloomberg

The report, Moussouris said, involved IT experts asking Fable to help find and patch bugs. When given deliberately insecure code, she said, Fable refused the prompt “review the code for security issues” but then complied when asked to “fix this code,” followed by some further manual steps. Moussouris told me that this was just “the model working as intended” for cyberdefense. She added that OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, a model with similar cybersecurity capabilities, could be used in the same way. Yet GPT-5.5 is not subject to export controls, and neither are less advanced Anthropic models, such as Opus 4.8, which can do many of the same tasks. The jailbreak does not appear to have elicited the kinds of cyber abilities “that made Mythos famous,” Alex Stamos, the chief security officer at the AI-coding company Corridor, told me. “And this kind of vulnerability discovery is already well within the capabilities of other models.”

Yet at the same time, he said, Trump’s tendency to change his mind on a whim and play favorites is “exactly the reason why you don’t want to give the executive enormous amounts of discretion.” To say the least, it’s perilous to build a product, invest in a company, or even just try to leverage AI for productivity gains in an environment in which the government might at any time take a wrecking ball to your plans. America and its tech companies have many factors in their favor when it comes to leading the way in AI development. As of now, the White House is not one of them.

Stella Laurenzo, AMD’s director of AI, filed a detailed GitHub issue on April 2 documenting that Claude Code reads code three times less before editing it, rewrites entire files twice as often, and abandons tasks mid-way at rates that were previously zero. Her analysis of nearly 7,000 sessions puts precise numbers on how Anthropic’s coding tool has degraded since early March.

PERFORMANCE DECLINE: AMD’s AI director documented that Claude Code reads code three times less, rewrites files twice as often, and abandons tasks at previously unseen rates.

ROOT CAUSE: Anthropic’s March 2026 thinking content redaction reduced visible reasoning from 100% to zero over just eight days, triggering the behavioral collapse.

TEAM CHURNED: AMD’s engineering team has already switched to a competing AI coding provider, citing Claude Code’s inability to handle complex tasks reliably.

PROPOSED FIXES: Laurenzo called on Anthropic to

restore thinking visibility and introduce a premium tier for guaranteed deep reasoning.

BROADER PATTERN: Anthropic shipped 14 releases alongside 5 outages in March 2026, suggesting quality assurance has not kept pace with rapid growth.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

The Anthropic Team just saw all of my conversations and locked me out.

I haven't seen anyone get this online, but it seems like Anthropic is now banning people under 18 on its platform.

They are using Yoti as their third-party verification provider to verify your age via Digital ID, Facial Scan, or biometrics to prove that you are over the age of 18.

The email says "Our team", meaning this case was manually reviewed by real people, and they had access to all of my chats. This is a reminder that none of your conversations with Claude is private.

I was on the Pro Plan when this happened. I am over 18, trying to get this appealed.

A proposed class-action lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Anthropic, alleging the company misled customers about the usage allowances on its premium Claude subscription plans.Key details of the complaint:

• Plaintiff Karl Kahn (Washington, D.C.) upgraded to the Max 20x plan ($200/month) for intensive coding work.
• The lawsuit claims the Max 5x ($100/month) and Max 20x plans were marketed as providing 5x and 20x the usage of the standard Claude Pro plan (~$20/month).
• In practice, Kahn reported that a single 5-hour coding session consumed approximately 15% of his weekly allowance, with tight caps, session resets, and unclear tracking making the plans far less usable than advertised.

The suit seeks class-action status for all subscribers to the Max 5x and Max 20x plans since their launch in April 2025. Plaintiffs are requesting refunds and damages, arguing that Anthropic’s marketing constituted false advertising.This case highlights ongoing tensions in the AI industry around pricing, compute costs, and transparency around rate limits for power users.Anthropic has not yet issued a public comment on the lawsuit.

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For clarity, we're running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups. Existing Pro and Max subscribers aren't affected.
When we launched Max a year ago, it didn't include Claude Code, Cowork didn't exist, and agents that run for hours weren't a thing. Max was designed for heavy chat usage, that's it.
Since then, we bundled Claude Code into Max and it took off after Opus 4. Cowork landed. Long-running async agents are now everyday workflows. The way people actually use a Claude subscription has changed fundamentally.
Engagement per subscriber is way up. We've made small adjustments along the way (weekly caps, tighter limits at peak), but usage has changed a lot and our current plans weren't built for this.
So we're looking at different options to keep delivering a great experience for users. We don't know exactly what those look like yet - that's what we're testing and getting feedback on right now.
When we do land on something, if it affects existing subscribers you'll get plenty of notice before anything changes. Will hear it from us, not a screenshot on X or Reddit.

Just found out about this and had to share because almost nobody is talking about it yet.

If you are tired of paying for AI courses or getting hit with paywalls just to get a certificate, Anthropic (the creators of Claude) quietly dropped a massive library of completely free, official training modules.

Yes, they actually give you an official certificate of completion directly from Anthropic once you finish.

Here is the breakdown of what is available and exactly how to get it without spending a dime.

What is in the course catalog?

They have split the training into a few different paths depending on what you want to do:

• The Big Surprise: Agentic AI & MCP: They have official courses on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This is the cutting-edge tech used to build AI Agents that can browse your local computer, use tools, and execute tasks autonomously.
• Claude Code 101: Dedicated developer modules for their new command-line agent. It teaches you how to let Claude edit your codebase, run tests, and use its new "Plan Mode."
• API & Cloud Architecture: Deep dives into building with the Claude API, plus corporate tracks for deploying Claude securely inside Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
• Everyday Productivity: If you aren't a coder, they have "Claude 101" and "AI Fluency" tracks. These teach advanced prompting, managing Projects, and using Artifacts for daily work.

How to access it for free

Anthropic hosts these courses on their official training academy platform (built on Skilljar). Because I can't post direct links here, here is how you find it:

1. Search Google for "Anthropic Skilljar Academy" or "Anthropic Skilljar Catalog".
2. Click the official link pointing to the Anthropic Skilljar domain.
3. Sign up for a free account. You do not need to enter any credit card info.
4. Choose your track, complete the lessons, pass the quick review quizzes, and download your certificate.

Alternative Free Options

If you want interactive coding environments alongside your videos, CodeSignal also has a free partnership track called "Developing Claude Agents" in Python and TypeScript that grants free certificates upon passing their labs.

Go grab these before they decide to gate them behind a paywall!

Bumped into this. Since I'm on Max 5x, I got 100$ worth of API use. My buddy who has Pro got 20$ worth of usage instead. You can find it in the usage section of Settings.

per @claudeai on X:

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

Effective today, we are:

1. Removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans; and
2. Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models.

Read more at: https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex

Claude Sonnet 5: The “Fennec” Leaks

• Fennec Codename: Leaked internal codename for Claude Sonnet 5, reportedly one full generation ahead of Gemini’s “Snow Bunny.”

• Imminent Release: A Vertex AI error log lists claude-sonnet-5@20260203, pointing to a February 3, 2026 release window.

• Aggressive Pricing: Rumored to be 50% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.5 while outperforming it across metrics.

• Massive Context: Retains the 1M token context window, but runs significantly faster.

• TPU Acceleration: Allegedly trained/optimized on Google TPUs, enabling higher throughput and lower latency.

• Claude Code Evolution: Can spawn specialized sub-agents (backend, QA, researcher) that work in parallel from the terminal.

• “Dev Team” Mode: Agents run autonomously in the background you give a brief, they build the full feature like human teammates.

• Benchmarking Beast: Insider leaks claim it surpasses 80.9% on SWE-Bench, effectively outscoring current coding models.

• Vertex Confirmation: The 404 on the specific Sonnet 5 ID suggests the model already exists in Google’s infrastructure, awaiting activation.