Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI

Summary

At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. Abroad, the incident offered a sobering reminder that the US not only dominates frontier AI but can also cut off access at any time.

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• https://www.engadget.com/2194626/anthropic-hit-with-lawsuit-over-its-claude-max-usage-limits/
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-15/cohere-seeing-inbounds-after-dc-s-anthropic-scrutiny-video
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