Anthropic Temporarily Banned OpenClaw's Creator from Accessing Claude
The escalating tension between Anthropic and the open-source agentic AI ecosystem hit a new flashpoint this week when Anthropic temporarily suspended the account of OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger — the same week the company announced it was no longer covering OpenClaw usage under flat-rate Claude subscriptions. What Happened Early Friday morning, Steinberger posted to X with a screenshot of a message from Anthropic informing him his account had been suspended for “suspicious” activity. His accompanying caption was blunt: “Yeah folks, it’s gonna be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with Anthropic models.” ...