- Primary Subject: AI Assistant Restrictions and Setbacks
- Key Update: Anthropic is throttling Claude's session limits during peak hours
- Status: Live
- Last Verified: 2026-03-27
- Quick Answer: Recent user restrictions on the AI assistant Claude are making AI lovers angry.
AI enthusiasts are having one of their worst weeks ever following some massive mishaps from OpenAI. Now, Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic has announced they'll essentially start throttling Claude's usage during peak times, making it more expensive to use.
Via social media, Thariq stated that to "manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged."
From now on, during weekdays between 5 am–11 am PT / 1 pm–7 pm GMT, users will hit their 5-hour session limits faster than before. Thariq's solution? Work at off-times: "If you run token-intensive background jobs, shifting them to off-peak hours will stretch your session limits further," an amazing response that truly highlights how AI is making your life easier by dictating when you should work.
If you're out of the loop, Claude is a more "nuanced" AI assistant that specializes in more complex tasks like coding or breaking down long documents. Hence, it costs money to use it for extended periods of time.
Now that everyone and their mother seems to want to incorporate AI into their lives to feel like a discount Tony Stark talking to a lifeless version of Jarvis, Anthropic is pulling a fast one on its paid subscribers.
As mentioned, these issues come after OpenAI announced they'll be shutting down Sora, their AI slop video-making tool, and stopped development on a creepy "adult mode" for ChatGPT, all while losing a massive $1 billion investment from Disney.
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