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OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger was banned from Anthropic.
Anthropic recently changed its policy to require separate API payments for OpenClaw usage.
KEY POINTS
- OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger's Anthropic account was suspended for 'suspicious' activity but quickly reinstated.
- An Anthropic engineer publicly stated that no one has been banned for using OpenClaw.
- Anthropic claims the pricing change is due to claws' more compute-intensive usage patterns.
- Features similar to OpenClaw were added to Anthropic's Cowork agent shortly before the pricing change.
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