Anthropic Wrongly Bills a Free-Tier User $16.6 Million: What Happened?
Anthropic confirmed a massive billing error after its system tried to charge a South Korean free-tier user $16.6 million, despite zero API usage and no registered card. The phantom invoices blocked…
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