Anthropic updated its pricing page on April 22, 2026, removing Claude Code from the $20/month Pro plan and restricting it to $100-200/month Max plans. The company reversed the change within hours after significant backlash across Reddit, Hacker News, and Twitter.
Anthropic removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan pricing page on Tuesday, though the company claims the change is only a test affecting approximately 2% of new prosumer signups. Existing Pro and Max subscribers remain unaffected, according to head of growth Amol Avasare.
OpenAI has released GPT-5.4 Image 2, combining the GPT-5.4 reasoning model with image generation capabilities. The multimodal model features a 272K token context window and is priced at $8 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0, pricing output tokens at $30 per million with maximum resolution of 3840x2160 pixels. CEO Sam Altman claims the improvement from gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2 equals the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-5.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.0, which integrates reasoning capabilities to generate complex visual compositions combining text and images. The model supports aspect ratios from 3:1 to 1:3 and outputs up to 2K resolution, with advanced features available to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.
Anthropic announced Claude Cowork is now available on Amazon Bedrock, allowing organizations to deploy the desktop AI assistant through their AWS infrastructure with consumption-based pricing. Unlike Claude Enterprise, pricing flows through existing AWS agreements with no per-seat licensing from Anthropic.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2, an upgraded image generation model that produces images up to 2K resolution in multiple aspect ratios. The model ships with two versions—Instant and Thinking—and can research current web information before generating images.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's new cybersecurity model Mythos during a podcast appearance, calling the company's decision to restrict public access 'fear-based marketing.' Anthropic claims Mythos is too powerful to release publicly due to potential weaponization by cybercriminals.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0, powered by the new GPT Image 2 model. The update enables web search integration for paid subscribers in thinking mode, generates up to eight images from a single prompt while maintaining visual consistency, and supports 2K resolution output.
InclusionAI has released Ling-2.6-flash, an instruction-tuned model with 104 billion total parameters and 7.4 billion active parameters, available free through OpenRouter. The model features a 262,144-token context window and is designed for agent workflows requiring fast responses and high token efficiency.
OpenRouter has released Pareto Code Router, a dynamic routing system that automatically selects from a curated list of coding models based on a user-defined quality threshold. Users set a min_coding_score between 0 and 1, and the router selects an appropriate model from its shortlist without requiring commitment to a specific model.
Replit has introduced Security Agent, an AI-powered tool that performs comprehensive security reviews of codebases in under an hour. The agent uses a hybrid approach combining LLMs with Semgrep and HoundDog.ai, and according to recent research can identify up to 93.3% of false positives from traditional static analysis tools.
OpenAI is set to announce gpt-image-2, its next-generation image generation model, on April 21, 2026 at 12pm PT. The company's teaser demonstrates improved capabilities in rendering text and generating realistic user interfaces from text prompts.
TII UAE released QIMMA, an Arabic LLM leaderboard that validates benchmark quality before evaluating models. The validation pipeline, using Qwen3-235B and DeepSeek-V3 plus human review, discarded 3.1% of ArabicMMLU samples and found systematic quality issues across 14 benchmarks.
NVIDIA released Nemotron-Personas-Korea, a dataset containing 7 million demographically accurate synthetic personas grounded in official Korean statistics from KOSIS, Supreme Court of Korea, and the National Health Insurance Service. The dataset includes 26 fields per persona covering demographics, geography, and occupation across all 17 Korean provinces, with zero personally identifiable information under CC BY 4.0 license.
GitHub has paused new subscriptions for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans due to compute capacity constraints. The company cites agentic workflows as consuming significantly more resources than its original pricing structure anticipated, forcing tighter usage limits and a shift away from flat-rate billing.
Google's Gemini integration in Chrome is now available in seven additional Asia-Pacific countries: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The feature, which launched in the US and expanded to Canada, India, and New Zealand in March, now operates in 11 markets total.
Google has expanded usage limits in AI Studio for paid subscribers. AI Pro subscribers ($19.99/month) and Ultra subscribers ($249.99/month) now get higher usage caps and access to Nano Banana Pro and Gemini Pro models, along with expanded access to Google Antigravity, Jules, Gemini Code Assist, and Gemini CLI.
OpenAI's Codex desktop app for Mac has added Chronicle, a feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI's servers for OCR and visual analysis, then stores text summaries as unencrypted Markdown files locally. The feature requires a $100+/month ChatGPT Pro subscription and is unavailable in the EU, UK, and Switzerland.
LinkedIn has launched Crosscheck, a feature allowing Premium subscribers in the US to compare AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, MoonshotAI, and Amazon through blind testing. The feature has no token limits and shares anonymized usage data with model providers.