Anthropic is turning away as much as 7% of its customers due to industrial espionage worries:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/why-anthropic-is-turning-away-some-users-2026-10-22/
"Here’s a strange move for a company racing toward the largest IPO in history: turn away paying customers, on purpose, weeks before you go public. That’s effectively what Anthropic just did.
Inside an investor meeting in San Francisco last week, my colleagues and I got a behind-the-scenes look at how Anthropic’s executives are explaining a slowdown of their own making.
The company has cut off a meaningful slice of paying customers — accounting for between 5% and 7% of its revenue in the first nine months of the year, investors at the meeting told us. The reasoning: those accounts weren’t typical customers. They were, Anthropic alleged, Chinese AI labs quietly mining Claude to train their own models."
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