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Anthropic cut off Claude subscription-funded usage in third-party tools like OpenClaw
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You can still use Claude models through OpenClaw, but it now requires separate pay-as-you-go billing or your own API key — your Claude Code subscription no longer works.
Key facts
- Anthropic’s run-rate revenue hit $30B, up from $9B at the end of 2025
- Intercom is making its agent Fin available via API for companies with contracts starting at $250k per year. (
- Google released Gemma 4. 4 new open-weights models
- two for powerful laptops and desktops (26B MoE and 31B dense), and two tiny ones for mobile phones (2B & 4B)
- Samuel is building skills ( like this AI SDR one ) for the Replit Agent and sharing them on X
Summary
Anthropic cut off Claude subscription-funded usage in third-party tools like OpenClaw. But OpenClaw founder, Peter, is a (good-kind of) maniac who’s trying to get gpt5.4 working like opus in the tool (since OpenAI acquired him). Unfortunately it’s left the whole community confused as to where and when they can use their Claude Code subscriptions outside of the cc harness itself. There’s a new take on knowledge bases that the reporter thinks is interesting by Andrej Karpathy. Related, Farza built Farzapedia, a personal Wikipedia generated from 2,500 diary entries, notes and messages.