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- The US government's export control directive forces Anthropic to suspend access to its AI models (Fable and Mythos) for foreign nationals, including employees, treating nationality as the defining boundary.
- This shift from safety discourse to nationalist control reveals that AI is being treated as a weapon, with the US claiming moral superiority and restricting access based on passport rather than risk.
- Europe is deeply dependent on US technology, cloud providers, semiconductors, and military power, and its regulatory approach is a poor substitute for building its own capabilities.
- European tech policy suffers from fragmentation, bureaucracy, risk aversion, and talent drain, leading to a death spiral where ambitious founders move to the US.
- Europe must deregulate, create deep capital markets, normalize employee ownership, and build a real single market to regain agency and avoid being a pawn in global AI rivalry.
- The ultimate goal should be international cooperation and open access, not bloc supremacy, as AI could foster global understanding rather than militarization and conflict.