Anthropic's OpenClaw Ban Scare Shows the Real Power Struggle in AI Tooling

When Anthropic briefly suspended OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger's access to Claude this week, it looked at first like another messy platform moderation mistake. A few hours later the account was reinstated, but by then the story had already become much bigger than one developer getting locked out. What actually surfaced was a live example of the tension now defining the AI tooling market: model providers want to own the full user experience, while independent agent frameworks want to stay m...