The smuggling and romance details that have been exposed so far are either well known or immaterial to the business. So why the crazy urgency now?

Perhaps some influential folks want to support Anthropic's IPO by showing that the open source models will soon be blunted/outlawed, but IPO-ing into a crash seems like a high price for that moat.

Or do similarly influential folks want to tank AI as a whole but couldn't politically afford a crash before mid-terms?