Anthropic extended access to Claude Fable 5 on paid plans through July 19, letting subscribers spend up to half of their weekly usage limit on the model at no additional cost before either continuing with credits or switching to a different model (Simon Willison). The company had originally restricted access while it assessed demand against available compute capacity. OpenAI moved in the opposite direction over the same stretch, removing usage limits on its higher-tier plans and shipping efficiency improvements to GPT-5.6 Sol, which it says has reached 6 million active users ahead of a planned usage reset (Simon Willison).
Willison also published a note on Directly Responsible Individuals, the Apple and GitLab practice of assigning one accountable owner to each piece of work, and asked whether an LLM agent can meaningfully hold that role (Simon Willison). On the tooling side, he released sqlite-utils 4.1.1, which fixes an edge case involving foreign keys and transactions that surfaced while experimenting with Claude (Simon Willison), and shot-scraper 1.11, which improves server startup handling and adds new options for loading JavaScript from a file (Simon Willison).