Overview
- DeepMind engineer Varun Mohan said a surge in "malicious usage" of the Antigravity backend degraded quality of service, prompting rapid restrictions for accounts tied to OpenClaw activity.
- Mohan noted the action targets Antigravity usage rather than core Google services and indicated some users unaware of violations will receive a path to reinstatement.
- Anthropic recently updated its Consumer Terms to forbid using OAuth tokens from Claude Free, Pro, or Max in third-party tools, explicitly naming OpenClaw.
- Reports describe OpenClaw sessions consuming millions of tokens, raising compute and cost pressures for providers and fueling disputes over unclear terms and abrupt enforcement.
- OpenAI has taken a different tack by hiring OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, and reporting indicates ChatGPT users have not been banned for OpenClaw use.