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Anthropic is effectively blocking Claude subscription access to third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4, 2026 at 3PM ET. Users will need to purchase separate pay-as-you-go usage bundles to continue using OpenClaw with Claude. The move comes as OpenClaw's popularity has strained Anthropic's infrastructure capacity.

Anthropic has identified two primary causes for Claude Code users hitting usage limits faster than expected: stricter rate limiting during peak hours and sessions with context windows exceeding 1 million tokens. The company also recommends switching to Sonnet 4.6 instead of Opus, which consumes limits roughly twice as fast.

Google has released Lyria 3 Clip Preview, a music generation model available through the Gemini API as of March 30, 2026. The model generates 30-second audio clips from text prompts or images at $0.04 per clip, with a 1,048,576 token context window.