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Anthropic adds weekly rate limits to rein in 24/7 Claude Code use

Some subscribers were burning tens of thousands of dollars of compute on $200/mo plans, so Anthropic caps weekly usage from late August — under 5% of users affected, loudly. The first hard evidence that flat-rate pricing cannot survive always-on agents.

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