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Trump’s Anthropic crackdown sets off AI alarms for U.S. allies
The move affects models already used by banks and law firms and has prompted calls from nearly 150 security leaders to reverse it.
Summary
With the recent crackdown on Anthropic, the White House has given global leaders another reason to panic about their place in the technology race. On Friday, the U.S. ordered Anthropic to deny foreign nationals access to the company’s newest artificial intelligence models. The export ban asserted a broad, unprecedented authority over the technology. Until then, conversations in Europe about losing access to U.S. tech, sometimes posed as a presidential “kill switch” were theoretical. To many on the continent, Friday’s move underscored the dire need to find alternatives to American AI, and fast.