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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
U.S. Treasury threatens sanctions against Chinese AI lab Moonshot for allegedly distilling Anthropic's Fable 5 model, a dispute that risks derailing planned September bilateral AI safety talks and deepening U.S.-China technology competition.
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If you're building AI safety evals, compliance testing, or model governance infrastructure, Washington and Beijing just abandoned the one table where they might have agreed on standards - and that vacuum will fill with unilateral regulations and supply chain reshuffles. The September dialogue was your market; now you're selling to two separate governments with incompatible rules.
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