Woofun AI reports that Claude has extended the subscription period for Claude Fable 5 by an additional seven days, pushing the deadline to July 19. This adjustment follows repeated postponements of the transition to a pay-as-you-go model due to persistent hash rate capacity shortages.

OpenAI simultaneously announced the temporary removal of the five-hour usage limit on Codex, though the duration of this policy change remains unspecified. The updates address growing user dissatisfaction, with some subscribers threatening to migrate to OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol or xAI’s Grok 4.5 following high credit bills.