Vol. I · No. 144THU, SEP 10, 2026
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PSA: The string "HERMES.md" in your git commit history silently routes Claude Code billing to extra usage — cost me $200

TL;DR: If your git commits mention "HERMES.md" (uppercase), Claude Code quietly stops using your Max plan and starts billing you at API rates. Anthropic's support acknowledged the bug, thanked me for finding it, and refused a refund. Apparently their AI safety principles don't extend to your wallet. **The story** I'm on Max 20x ($200/month). Today Claude Code started throwing: \> "You're out of extra usage. Add more at [claude.ai/settings/usage](http://claude.ai/settings/usage) and keep going." Weird, because my plan dashboard showed 13% weekly usage and 0% current session. 86...

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Anthropic+Google

Google announces it will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, its largest single AI investment ever. https://x.com/nolimitgains/status/2047709664423420358?s=46

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Anthropic explains Claude Code's recent performance decline after weeks of user backlash

Anthropic, the AI lab valued at $380 billion, has acknowledged that a series of engineering missteps were behind a widely-experienced decline in the performance of its Claude Code tool that sparked a user revolt over the past month. The latest admission, which came after weeks in which Anthropic had initially implied in its communications that nothing was wrong and that users were largely to blame for any performance problems and later said some of the changes had been made for users’ benefit, has done little to calm Anthropic’s customers—some of whom say they have already cancelled their su...

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OpenAI/Anthropic Hiring Trends

OpenAI and Anthropic job listings show unexpectedly high go-to-market hiring relative to engineering and research roles.

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Google Plans to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic (Gift Link)

Per Bloomberg: > Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between two companies that are at once partners and rivals in the race to build artificial intelligence. > > Anthropic said that Google is committing to invest $10 billion now in cash at a $350 billion valuation, the same amount it was valued at in a funding round in February, not including the recent money raised. The Alphabet Inc.-owned company will invest another $30 billion if Anthropic hits performance targets, the startup said Friday...

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Did they change data rates?

Reddit user reports unexpected token consumption increase on Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 MAX plan; possible pricing/rate change speculation.

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China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals

Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its hotly anticipated next-generation AI model V4 on Friday, saying that the open-source model can compete with leading closed-source systems from US rivals including Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. DeepSeek says V4 marks a major improvement over prior models, especially in coding, a capability that has become central to AI agents and helped drive the success of tools like ChatGPT Codex and Claude Code. The release is also a milestone for China's chip industry, with DeepSeek explicitly highlighting compatibility with domestic Huawei technology....

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Tested Claude AI LLM Models' Effort Levels - Low To Max: How Claude Opus 4.7 differs

I benchmarked and compared Claude Opus 4.5 vs Opus 4.6 vs Opus 4.7 vs Sonnet 4.6 testing effort levels from low, medium, high, xhigh, max as curious about token usage/costs and performance within Claude Code https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/tested-claude-ai-llm-models-effort Hope folks find this useful. The test was done with Claude Code v2.1.117 which is apparently the fixed versions from Anthropic's post-mortem announcement.

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Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax

Claude users can access more apps with Anthropic's AI now thanks to new connectors for everything from hiking to grocery shopping. Anthropic already supported connecting numerous work-related apps to Claude, like Microsoft apps, but this expansion focuses on personal apps like Audible, Spotify, Uber, AllTrails, TripAdvisor, Instacart, TurboTax, and others. Some of these apps, such as Spotify, already have similar connectors in OpenAI's ChatGPT. Once an app is connected, Claude will suggest relevant connected apps directly in your conversations, like using AllTrails for hike recommendations. A...

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Open AI got to AGI first!

Reddit user speculates OpenAI reached AGI and will outpace Anthropic; compares Codex and Claude Code features.

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Anthropic: The worst customer service ever

I’ve been trying to make the payment on my 2nd account and it’s rejecting the payment. Tried it 8 times since yesterday. All the payment info is correct. The same card is working on my 1st account.

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Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating

Anthropic's tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending weeks insisting the AI model is so capable at cybersecurity that it is too dangerous to release publicly, it appears the model fell into the wrong hands anyway. According to Bloomberg, a "small group of unauthorized users" has had access to Mythos - whose existence was first revealed in a leak - since the day Anthropic announced plans to offer it to a select group of companies for testing. Anthropic says it is investigating. That's a rough look for a company that has built its brand on taking AI ...

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