TechCrunch OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger said his Anthropic Claude account was suspended on Friday over alleged “suspicious” activity, only to be reinstated a few hours later after the incident went viral. The brief ban followed Anthropic’s decision to stop covering third‑party tools like OpenClaw under its standard subscription, forcing users to pay for API usage separately. Steinberger, now employed by OpenAI, argued the move was a paywall on open‑source tooling and sparked a heated online debate about pricing, competition and the future of AI agents.
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