Anthropic Billing Tried to Charge a Free User $16.6 Million
A South Korean developer says Anthropic’s billing system tried to charge him $16.6 million despite being on the free plan with zero API usage, one of several billing complaints.
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A South Korean developer says Anthropic’s billing system tried to charge him $16.6 million despite being on the free plan with zero API usage, one of several billing complaints.
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, double the $6.6 billion it achieved in December 2025.
Alibaba will bar employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code from July 10 over alleged security risks, after developers found code that detects China-linked users.
HP is scaling a strategic partnership with OpenAI, using the Frontier platform to roll out AI agents across customer support, software development and security after early pilots.
Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use folds screen control into one cheap model with prompt-injection safeguards, though it is a preview and the benchmark is self-reported.
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Cursor unveiled its first from-scratch AI model, an agent-first Git platform called Origin and an iOS app, days after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of its parent.
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack agent teams summon with @Claude to delegate tasks, with shared channel memory and the ability to act on its own.
OpenAI added Record and Replay to its Codex Mac app, letting users demonstrate a task once and turn it into a reusable AI skill.
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a flagship coding model with a usable 1-million-token context, shipping it to paying subscribers first while withholding benchmarks, an API and open weights.
Xiaomi MiMo Code is a free, MIT-licensed coding agent with persistent memory and parallel reasoning, forked from OpenCode and aimed at hundred-step tasks.
European AI app-building startup Lovable has surpassed $500 million in annualized revenue run rate, up from $400 million reported in February 2026.
Anthropic has called on the global AI industry to consider slowing or temporarily pausing frontier model development, warning that AI systems are already automating parts of their own creation and that full recursive self-improvement – where AI designs and trains its own successors without human involvement – could arrive within one to two years.
OpenAI has introduced role-specific plugins, collaborative websites, and annotation tools for Codex as the platform expands beyond software development. More than 5 million people now use Codex weekly, with non-developers becoming one of its fastest-growing user groups.
Uber Technologies has introduced spending limits on AI coding tools after reportedly exhausting its annual AI budget within the first four months of the year.