OpenClaw founder blasts Anthropic's ban decision, calling it a "copy first, kill later" open-source project.

BlockBeatNews · 2026-04-06T01:51:56+00:00

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger accused Anthropic of copying its popular features and stopping third-party tool access, calling their actions an excuse for "capacity management" aimed at blocking competitors. He and director Dave Morin attempted to communicate but only received a one-week delay.

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2026-04-06 01:51:56

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According to monitoring by 1M AI News, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger posted on X to speak out publicly about Anthropic terminating subscribers’ access to third-party tool permissions. He said that he and OpenClaw Foundation’s first independent director, Dave Morin, had communicated with Anthropic, “at most only managing to get it postponed by a week.” He accused Anthropic’s actions of being: first, copying OpenClaw’s popular features into its own closed product, Claude Code; then, using “capacity management” as the reason to block subscription access to open-source tools. “This is their own choice; I just want everyone to know what happened.”

Steinberger joined OpenAI in February this year. The OpenClaw project was immediately handed over to an independent foundation for operations, and he no longer leads development himself.

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