Wouldnt call it regulatory blood lust at the moment. I think the competitive situation that is however solely focussed in performance at any cost and not at compliance at all is forcing AI labs to play with fire. The risk for them is an even bigger regulatory backlash. Totally different industry : Chinese ebike manufacturers are currently pushing the rules for motor strength to the max due to competition. What will likely happen is stricter regulation of max support and motor power if there are incidents. Particularly there will be more regulatory fragmentation with little common denominator. This will hurt the whole industry's growth. In this industry it kind of still works as an agreement of non-Chinese manufacturers.

What you're saying might be plausible if Dario and Sam didn't take every other opportunity to call for regulation. And that's a massive understatement with Anthropic.

They're facilitating a doomerism cult that is lobbying and clearly making headway in Congress.

You have to put your head in the sand to think open weight models aren't a threat/large revenue loss to their business.

Yeah. If the conspiracy theory was that these incidents were somehow orchestrated by Anthropic, that would at least make some logical sense.