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In the Same Morning, OpenAI and Anthropic Both Loosened Usage Limits

Joy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0800

On the morning of July 12, 2026, within less than one hour, two leading AI companies loosened the “usage leash.” Anthropic’s official Claude account announced at 10:02 that Claude Fable 5 availability would be extended and Claude Code’s weekly usage limit would remain 50% higher. Then OpenAI’s Tibo announced at 10:59 that the 5-hour usage window for Plus, Business, and Pro would be temporarily removed, GPT-5.6 Sol efficiency would be improved, and a usage reset was coming. Same morning, same theme: usage. This feels less like coincidence and more like an arms race heating up.

Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 redeployed

Joy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Update

Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 redeployed

July 1, 2026

Access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is now restored.

On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. This required us to restrict access to foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the United States. Because the order took effect immediately and we had no reliable way to verify nationality in real-time, we suspended access to both models for all users.

Loopcraft: The Art of Stacking Loops

Joy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

This is a translated and adapted excerpt from Latent Space / AINews.

There is a lot of “loop discourse” in the air:

Steipete: “Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.”
Boris: “I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I write loops, the loops do the work.”
Andrej on Autoresearch: To get the most out of the tools that have become available now, you have to remove yourself as the bottleneck. You cannot be there to prompt the next thing. You need to arrange things so they are completely autonomous, maximize token throughput, and not be in the loop. The goal now is to increase your leverage. You do not want to be the researcher in the loop looking at every result and holding the system back. The question becomes: how do I refactor the abstractions so I arrange it once and hit go?

This framing is compelling, and many people do not realize how many loops we are already inside:

Anthropic Statement: US Government Requires Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to Be Disabled

Joy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Below is Anthropic’s official statement on the matter. This site republishes it as news without modification.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.