Ultra is Anthropic’s $200-per-month individual Claude subscription, replacing the Max 20x plan under a new name. Existing Max 20x subscribers transfer automatically without a price change. Ultra provides ten times the Pro plan’s usage each week, priority access to new models and features, Claude Code, background handling of longer tasks such as reports and presentations, and monthly Claude API credits. It is sold monthly; mobile subscription prices may differ.
Ultra still has usage limits: a weekly allowance shared across models, a separate weekly limit for Fable, and possible additional caps to manage capacity. Verified accounts do not face the usual five-hour session limit, but unverified accounts have a temporary limit until verification happens automatically; phone verification at checkout does not remove it. Account status can be checked in Settings > Usage: a verified account has no Current session bar. Customers switching from an annual Pro plan may receive credit for unused value if it exceeds Ultra’s price, provided the billing address matches. Google Play upgrades instead convert the unused value into extra subscription days. The plan does not guarantee uninterrupted service.
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Anthropic has restricted Claude from helping with video game modding, decompiling, and reverse-engineering, amid growing use of AI to alter games. The limits are broad enough to disrupt legitimate development and basic troubleshooting, and Anthropic has not publicly explained the restrictions. (mashable.com)
OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Terra is a midrange model focused on visual reasoning, computer use, and technical communication, with faster computer-use performance than Astra and Sol. It costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, positioning it between the cheaper Luna and pricier Sol. (simonwillison.net)
Pope Leo XIV argued that AI’s future depends on human choices and that systems should serve people, not be treated as persons. He called for human oversight of high-stakes decisions, steps to ban lethal autonomous weapons, and fair access to AI’s benefits. (garymarcus.substack.com)
Researcher Jiahao Shao says Anthropic blocked or downgraded his access after flagging his work as training a competitor. He says Claude only helped run jobs and analyze results, not generate training data. (twitter.com)
GPT-5.6 Sol completed a peaceful Factorio run in 13.5 hours of game time using a Python tool to control the game. It launched a rocket despite late-game factory problems, improving on an earlier GPT-5.5 attempt that failed to use conveyor belts. (ryanmadden.net)
A language model was post-trained on short Dwitter demos to generate plausible continuations of unfinished code and explore alternative visual effects. The project treats demo remixes as a kind of programming grammar, where tiny code changes can produce strikingly different results. (datavorous.com)
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