Anthropic extends Fable 5 offer as OpenAI relaxes GPT-5.6 limits
Anthropic extends its Fable 5 promotion to July 19; 58 minutes later, OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work limits and temporarily removes a five-hour cap.
What happened
Event details
At 10:02 a.m. PT on July 12, 2026, Anthropic extended promotional access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 19 and kept a 50% increase in weekly Claude Code usage through the same date. At 10:59 a.m. PT, OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux said the five-hour limit for Plus, Business and Pro would be temporarily removed, work was underway to reduce how much subscription allowance comparable GPT-5.6 Sol tasks consumed, and Codex and ChatGPT Work limits would reset within an hour. At 2:28 p.m., he said banked resets had reached about 500,000 users and that all ChatGPT Work and Codex users would receive one the following day. The announcements were 58 minutes apart, establishing sequence but not causation. The measures change subscription capacity and user experience, not model capability; the five-hour-limit removal was explicitly temporary.
Assessment
Why it matters
The changes materially improve short-term capacity for paid users and intensify competition between frontier-model subscriptions, but they are usage-policy adjustments rather than model breakthroughs.
Availability
Access notes
OpenAI reset Codex and ChatGPT Work limits and temporarily removed the five-hour cap for Plus, Business and Pro; weekly limits remained. Banked resets first reached about 500,000 users, with expansion to all relevant users announced for the following day.