Anthropic is being sued in a class action lawsuit alleging the AI company misled customers about usage limits in its premium Claude Max subscription plans. Plaintiff Karl Kahn claims he overpaid and received less usage than advertised, with a lawyer stating the case hinges on consumer protection laws against misleading advertising.
Google slashed the price of its top-tier AI Ultra plan from $250 to $100 per month, while also reducing the storage limit from 30TB to 20TB. The AI Pro plan remains $20 per month.
Chloe Wang, a 26-year-old fund employee in Shenzhen, said she “definitely wouldn’t” pay for a subscription to Doubao, Chinese tech giant ByteDance’s artificial intelligence chatbot, at its proposed price. “I’m willing to pay for AI tools, but I don’t think it’s worth that much – even though I find Doubao relatively easy to use among domestic AI products,” said Wang, who uses the app occasionally for work-related queries. “If I had to pay for an AI tool as a productivity aid, I’d probably rather...
Several users of Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot have reported unauthorized charges ranging from £180 to £400 on their credit cards for gift card purchases they did not make. David Duggan (pseudonym) discovered two $200 payments and a failed third attempt after his wife spotted the fraudulent transactions. Similar cases were found on Reddit, with one user reporting ten £18 charges and others charged €216 three times. Anthropic states it is implementing new protections and issuing refunds for identified scam purchases.
