Miles Brundage suspects Anthropic's Claude abuse policy aims at IPO and regulatory capture

Miles Brundage speculates that Anthropic's new rule, making abusive behavior toward Claude a Usage Policy violation effective November 12, 2026, is meant to help its IPO and win favor with the administration as part of a regulatory capture strategy.

The post offers this as a guess about motive rather than a confirmed fact, and it relies on the policy change flagged in the quoted post by Andrew Curran.