This coming off the end of the OpenAI/HuggingFace business does come across rather like Anthropic is doing a "actually, our models did it first, and better".
Didn't the company also recently have a spot of bother with the US government recently, where their new models were banned because of all their rabble about it being too dangerous? This hardly seems like it would help their case.
I'm surprised he wasn't stopped. I can't imagine the authorities would look very kindly on someone handcuffed to a thing they're holding, encrypted database or no.