America's AI Export Controls Are Making Realists of Its Allies

The US Commerce Department's temporary suspension of Anthropic's frontier AI models for foreign nationals, followed by reinstatement after safeguards were agreed, has accelerated allied governments' pivot towards sovereign AI strategies and supply-chain independence from US technology—mirroring the ITAR satellite precedent where export controls reshaped global markets.

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