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Anthropic is implementing new weekly rate limits for its Claude AI service, specifically targeting high-usage subscribers of Claude Code, effective August 28. These new limitations aim to mitigate excessive continuous usage of Claude Code, particularly by subscribers operating the AI coding tool “continuously in the background, 24/7”. Anthropic also indicated that the rate limits are intended to address violations of Claude’s usage policy, which include account sharing and the unauthorised reselling of access to Claude Code.