Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei arriving at the White House earlier this year. JESSICA KOSCIELNIAK/REUTERS Anthropic faced backlash over AI model limitations and transparency. Anthropic cited safety reasons, but also aims to protect its business from AI model distillation. Open-source AI models challenge Anthropic with competitive performance and lower costs. Anthropic changed course after a developer backlash this week. The bigger story is what the company is still doing, and why. The startup s...