❗️ Anthropic tried to charge a Korean user who was on the free plan with zero API usage $16.6 million. A day earlier, the same invoice was $1.67 million, so it grew roughly 10x overnight.
The user says he suspected phishing at first, then found the sender and payment link were Anthropic's official domain. His bank declined the charge attempts for exceeding the card's per-transaction limit...
Last month auditing startup Vaudit told it found about $1.7 million in overcharges across $34 million in AI invoices, mostly tied to Claude Code, and after months of GitHub reports about contradictory Anthropic billing emails.
I have to say, OpenAI is a company that genuinely cares about its users. When GPT-5.6 launched, I even got a second usage reset. Huge respect to the OpenAI team for that. It's the kind of customer-first approach I wish more AI companies, including Anthropic, would adopt.
US government ordered Anthropic to disable its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, even for foreign nationals and its own non-US staff. The trigger: a jailbreak unlocking the model's cyber abilities. Anthropic disagrees and calls it a misunderstanding.
Anthropic refused to let its AI run autonomous weapons & mass surveillance. Trump banned the whole govt from using it. OpenAI signed a Pentagon deal the same night. A judge said the admin may be "trying to cripple Anthropic." Guess who the "good guys" are.
With today’s AI models, you need to think much more globally. Stop prompting like “change this, edit that, save the docs, audit the files.” Give the model the full vision, destination, and operating principles then let it reason through the implementation. #Fable5