AI Coding Live News

On Oct 31, OpenAI's Help Center added a page titled "Understanding ChatGPT and Codex usage limits": starting in December, the usage allowance on Plus, Pro, and Business plans will be shared across ChatGPT and Codex as OpenAI brings the agentic capabilities of Work into the main ChatGPT experience. Usage will be measured in tokens, so stronger models and more complex tasks use more; Instant chat will not draw from the allowance. Users will see combined remaining usage and reset times in Settings > Usage, and can wait for a reset, upgrade, or buy credits when they run out. OpenAI says it expects most users will not need to wait for resets more often than they do now, but it has not given an exact start date or per-plan allowances. The news drew strong concern from Plus users on X.

Since Oct 21 many developers on X have complained that Claude Code was draining usage limits much faster. On Oct 28 (UTC) Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code at Anthropic, replied on X that the team reviewed every session ID users shared, found no single root cause and no regression in Claude Code, and is rolling out fixes for a few smaller issues that made some sessions burn tokens faster. Most fast-drain cases traced back to one or two heavy sessions using xhigh effort, /goal, Workflows, Agent Teams or long SDK jobs.

On Oct 28, OpenAI Developers announced on X that eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscriptions can now claim up to $500 a month in API credits. Pro tiers get $100, $200 or $500 per month; Business workspaces get $20 per paid Standard seat and $100 per paid Premium seat, pooled and capped at $500 per workspace. Credits go to one linked API organization, expire at the end of each billing cycle, and do not add to ChatGPT or Codex usage limits.

The official Grok Bot account announced a usage-limits reset for all users so people can keep using the AI coding teammate. The team also noted recent harness work on routing, caching, and dynamic context that can yield about 10%–35% more effective usage for some heavy users.

Anthropic opened a Claude Team plan for scientists, starting with 10,000 seats across math, chemistry, physics, and other fields. Standard seats are free; premium seats with 5x usage limits cost $15 per month for one year, an 80% discount. Principal investigators at academic and nonprofit labs can enroll and add their groups. The expansion builds on Claude Science and the AI for Science credit program, with Anthropic saying it will grow well beyond the initial 10,000 seats.

ClaudeDevs announced that standard Claude Code weekly usage limits will rise permanently by 25% on September 14, 2026 for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until that date, the current 50% promotional increase remains in effect. Anthropic also stated the new permanent baseline is about a 17% reduction versus the allowance developers are using today. The company said it is working on product changes that should make remaining quota feel more productive, with better visibility and control over usage. For teams running long-horizon coding agents, the practical implication is a two-step calendar: keep the promo window for large refactors and eval loops through mid-September, then resize concurrency, /loop jobs, and default effort levels to the tighter permanent cap. Heavy Claude Code users should treat the dashboard, not older Help Center copy, as the live schedule.