Jul 17, 2026
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Claude Fable 5 Went Dark in Claude Code — and Some Users Got Charged Twice
Claude Fable 5 went unselectable in Claude Code and claude.ai for 30 minutes on July 17 — and users with extra usage enabled were overcharged in the process. Anthropic is refunding affected credits plus doubling the amount as a penalty on itself.
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Abhinav Ramaswamy