Claude AI: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?
Anthropic restricts free Claude users to Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 3.5 models, with Sonnet 4.6 serving as the default chatbot. Free accounts face variable rate limits based on a rolling five-hour window, t…
Anthropic is an AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of AI assistants and focuses on AI interpretability and safety research.
Anthropic restricts free Claude users to Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 3.5 models, with Sonnet 4.6 serving as the default chatbot. Free accounts face variable rate limits based on a rolling five-hour window, t…
Cast, an open-source harness for multi-user, multi-agent systems, has been released as a developer alpha under the MIT license. The self-hosted tool runs on a Mac Mini and enforces access control thro…
Kilo Gateway now supports bring-your-own-key (BYOK) integration for 20 AI providers, including Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, DeepSeek, OpenAI, and Google AI Studio. The feature allows users to connect their…
Uber has implemented a $1,500 monthly token spending limit per AI coding tool for all employees, capping usage of agentic software like Cursor and Claude Code after the company blew its 2026 AI budget…
Anthropic's AI agents rewrote Bun's entire codebase from Zig to Rust in nine days, merging a million-line pull request on May 14 that passed 99.8% of existing tests but introduced over 10,000 `unsafe`…
Uber has capped employee usage of AI coding tools like Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code at $1,500 in monthly token spending per tool, a company spokesperson confirmed. The limit, implemented in rece…
On May 28, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8, and hours later some users reported that when asked in Chinese what model it was, the AI responded that it was Alibaba's Qwen. The claim that Anthr…
Uber has capped employee spending on agentic AI coding tools at $1,500 per month per tool, a company spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg News. The limits, implemented in recent months, apply to softwa…
Europe's AI boom faces three major risks: heavy reliance on US infrastructure and foundational models, potential redundancy as American models like Claude and ChatGPT expand into European applications…
Skawld has released an open-source TypeScript SDK that enables developers to embed full AI agent loops—including tools, sessions, permissions, streaming events, and subagents—into Node.js and Bun appl…
UK banks have been offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, even as they remain excluded from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion, which inducted 150 new organizations, including the first outside the US. The …
A developer has created qpilot, an open-source AI agent that reads plain-text manual test cases and executes them step-by-step in a real Chrome browser using TypeScript, Playwright, and Anthropic's Cl…
Microsoft unveiled seven in-house AI models at Build 2026, including its first reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1, which benchmarks show is roughly on par with Deepseek V3.2. The company also introduced …
Anthropic analyzed 832 banned accounts that used its AI models for malicious cyber operations between March 2025 and March 2026, mapping their activities onto all 14 tactics and 482 unique techniques …
Anthropic has posted job listings for a new "AI & Rule of Law" team within its Anthropic Institute, offering a salary range of $295,000 to $345,000 for a San Francisco-based role. The team, led by Yal…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google released new AI models late last year that significantly improved coding tools, enabling engineers to complete complex tasks in hours that previously took days. Engineer …
In San Francisco's competitive real estate market, some sellers are now listing homes for Anthropic or OpenAI stock instead of cash, reflecting the immense paper wealth held by employees of these AI c…
In the months since late 2025, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google released AI models that suddenly made coding agents capable of complex tasks that previously took humans years to master, triggering a fund…
Anthropic is hiring for a new "AI & Rule of Law" team to study how artificial intelligence impacts executive power, courts, elections, and democratic institutions. The AI company, which is moving towa…
Anthropic cofounder Chris Olah, a self-declared atheist and billionaire AI safety researcher, sat beside Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican last week to warn that the tech industry cannot govern itself. Olah…