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The article discusses the trend of AI companies implementing usage-based pricing and paywalls, limiting free access, and argues that fundamental skills like research and problem-solving remain crucial.
Companies across various industries are throttling employee AI usage and switching to cheaper models due to skyrocketing costs, with some spending tripling to over $15 million per month.
Anthropic is offering limited-time promotional access to its newest model, Claude Fable 5, allowing subscribers to use up to 50% of their weekly usage limits on the model at no extra cost during July 1-7, 2026.
Zhipu AI launches a free tier for GLM 5.2 with usage limits.
A class-action lawsuit filed against Anthropic alleges its Claude Max subscription plans ($100 and $200/month) advertise usage limits that are not delivered, putting the tension between flat pricing and per-prompt costs before a judge.
An analysis suggests that if users fully utilized OpenAI's $200 ChatGPT subscription, the compute costs could reach $14,000, highlighting the economic challenges of AI deployment at scale.
A user reports that Claude Fable exceeded their usage limits in a single prompt, highlighting aggressive consumption of tokens.
Sam Altman comments on a new initiative for Codex where one person per day will receive 10x usage limits for a month for impressive uses of Codex.
Cursor introduces new Teams pricing with increased usage limits, a Premium seat for power users, and better spend controls.
A mysterious company accidentally spent $500 million in one month on Claude AI due to failing to set usage limits, highlighting growing concerns about AI spending returns.
Google has doubled the usage limits for its Gemini AI model for Antigravity, tripling them on two occasions.
Tech giants are ending unmetered AI subscriptions, introducing compute bars and hourly caps that strain heavy workflows, signaling the end of cloud supercomputing as an infinite resource.
Google released Gemini Omni, but users report no significant improvement over VEO 3.1 and complain about strict usage limits that lock them out of other models on the Pro plan.
Latest Codex quota test data: Plus $22.67 per 5 hours, weekly limit $85.23; Team $18.36 per 5 hours, weekly limit $138.43; Pro 5x $152.23 per 5 hours, weekly limit $507.43 (officially doubled to 10x). In summary, Team quota is higher than Plus.
Rate limits for Codex have been reset across all paid plans. Users are encouraged to set their usage goals.
Codex usage limits have been reset across all paid plans after fixes for issues that degraded GPT-5.5 capability in Codex over the last 48 hours.
A user reports that the free tier of ChatGPT has become significantly more restrictive, with hard caps cutting off conversations after a few prompts, prompting reconsideration of their workflow.
Ars Technica interviews Anthropic's Cat Wu, head of product for Claude Code, about the product's rapid growth, compute constraints, and the company's iterative, model-driven development strategy without a long-term roadmap.
Anthropic introduced dedicated monthly credits for Claude Code, which significantly reduces AFK usage limits by approximately 5-20 times.
Google is preparing a new 'AI Ultra Lite' subscription tier for Gemini to bridge the gap between Pro and Ultra plans, along with a dashboard to track token usage limits.