In one June week, two things happened that look unrelated but are actually the same story:
The Commerce Department forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national, while the DOJ went to court in Mississippi to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines as too vital to national security to shut off.
Same story, opposite directions - once a leash, once a shield.
Why is this interesting? Because it clearly demonstrates one thing: AI, and everything that goes with it (data center expansion, frontier models, access, etc.), is increasingly being placed under national scrutiny and control.
I mean this in a completely neutral and objective way. AI is such a crucial national strategic issue that there is increasing intervention and adjustment in all its problems.
In the case of xAI, this is in their favor; in the case of Anthropic, it's against the company's private power. The proof is: AI is so significant that it can't simply be left to "run its course."
