{"slug": "anthropics-war-on-open-source-ai-or-is-it-just-afraid", "title": "Anthropic’s War on Open-Source AI, or Is It Just Afraid?", "summary": "Anthropic paid $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit over pirated books used to train its AI, and its terms of service prohibit using Claude to build competing AI systems, raising concerns about its stance on open-source AI.", "body_md": "It trained on the world, then paid $1.5 billion to settle the pirated books. Its terms say you cannot use Claude to build a competitor…\nContinue reading on Towards AI »", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-war-on-open-source-ai-or-is-it-just-afraid", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/anthropics-war-on-open-source-ai-or-is-it-just-afraid-4a97a7956dcf?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-07-01 00:01:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-01 00:23:28.714775+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics", "ai-policy", "ai-safety", "large-language-models", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-war-on-open-source-ai-or-is-it-just-afraid", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-war-on-open-source-ai-or-is-it-just-afraid.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-war-on-open-source-ai-or-is-it-just-afraid.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-war-on-open-source-ai-or-is-it-just-afraid.jsonld"}}