Trump's Anthropic Shutdown Just Made the Case for Non-American AI★ 76
The Verge AI·4 hours ago·Incident
After Washington demanded a blanket access cutoff for all foreign nationals, Anthropic abruptly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend—affecting customers worldwide and even its own non-US employees. The Trump administration's directive left the company saying it had little choice but to comply. For observers outside the US, the move served as a stark reminder of global dependency on American-controlled frontier AI, renewing urgency for sovereign, non-American AI alternatives.
