This week's Anthropic-inspired AI freakout, explained

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei arriving at the White House earlier this year.JESSICA KOSCIELNIAK/REUTERSAnthropic faced backlash over AI model limitations and transparency.Anthropic cited safety reasons, but also aims to protect its business from AI model distillation.Open-source AI models challenge Anthropic with competitive performance and lower costs.Anthropic changed course after a developer backlash this week. The bigger story is what the company is still doing, and why.The startup said it will