The Blender Foundation's decision to revise its arrangement with Anthropic is not a reversal — it is a negotiated boundary. The foundation clarified its AI policy and amended donation parameters while explicitly emphasizing human-driven creation and open-source priorities, a framing that tries to hold both sides of the argument at once. That balancing act is now the governing document for every subsequent AI-adjacent decision Blender makes. The community members who said 'bail and wait for a fork' have a specific tripwire: anything AI-related beyond the existing MCP link. The…