This week's Anthropic-inspired AI freakout, explained

Anthropic faced backlash for secretly degrading AI model responses for frontier AI development requests, later changing course to route such queries to a less-capable model and informing users. The company claims restrictions on its top model aim to prevent 'foreign adversaries' from eroding U.S. AI advantages and to protect against model distillation by competitors, particularly open-source developers offering cheaper, rapidly improving alternatives.