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Altman Wants to IPO Before Anyone Can Price Him Against Anthropic

Seven stories this week, a booing, a self-destruction, a free video model, and a visit to the Vatican among them.

Jing Hu
May 21, 2026
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1. Anthropic doubles Claude’s limits

Anthropic doubled Claude Code’s limits across paid plans and sharply raised API rate limits, after a compute deal with SpaceX freed up capacity.

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The sequence is the tell. Anthropic spent the spring deciding your $20 plan wasn’t built for agents and throttling them accordingly; the devs got loud about this d…

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