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Anthropic temporarily banned OpenClaw's creator from accessing Claude
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“Yeah folks, it’s gonna be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with Anthropic models,” OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger posted on X early Friday morning, along with a photo of a message from Anthropic saying his account had been suspended over “suspicious” activity.
Key facts
- OpenClaw users now have to pay for that usage separately, based on consumption, through Claude’s API
- Yeah folks, it’s gonna be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with Anthropic models,” OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger posted on X early Friday morning, along with a photo
- A few hours later, after the post went viral, Steinberger said his account had been reinstated
- Yeah folks, it's gonna be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with Anthropic models. pic.twitter.com/U6F8GZvPcH
Summary
The ban didn’t last long. Yeah folks, it's gonna be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with Anthropic models. pic.twitter.com/U6F8GZvPcH. It’s not clear if that was the key that restored the account. (They've asked Anthropic about it.) But the whole message string was enlightening on many levels. To recap the recent history: This ban followed news last week that subscriptions to Anthropic’s Claude would no longer cover “third-party harnesses including OpenClaw,” the AI model company said.