The United States has imposed export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable model, marking a dramatic shift in how Washington treats artificial intelligence. According to Dean Ball, writing on LessWrong, this reversal—from hands-off to heavily regulated—follows a tense relationship between Anthropic and the Department of War over supply-chain designations. Ball argues the government now treats advanced AI development as a sovereign and geopolitical issue, not merely a commercial one. The takeaway: making superintelligence is inherently political. For AI companies, the era of uncontested releases appears over.

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