1 September 2026

Anthropic cuts Claude usage allowance, Claude agents excel at safety research

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  • Anthropic ended a 50% temporary usage boost on September 14, replacing it with a permanent 25% increase. Paying users now receive 125 units instead of 150.
  • Anthropic's own Claude agents, working as teams without human oversight, identified and fixed ten types of AI misbehavior, performing 4x better than human safety researchers on average.

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