🔧 Anthropic's Masterpiece of Self-Sabotage: Marketing Scarcity While an Open Model Overtakes the $200 Plan

There is a particular kind of corporate comedy that only writes itself, and Anthropic just delivered the third act.

On July 12, for the second time in a week, the company pushed back the deadline for pulling Claude Fable 5 out of its paid subscriptions. The new cutoff is July 19, 11:59:59 PM Pacific. That is the third date shift in five weeks —...