…to enter the AI track. Comparatively speaking, the United States relies more on chip export control and standards alliance to maintain ecological dominance, while the European Union focuses on rule export. There are no absolute advantages and disadvantages among the three strategies, but they reflect different geo-phil…

…Listen on Spotify Anthropic recently took its two newest AI models offline due to an export control order from the Trump administration, prompting broad debates about AI policy and digital sovereignty. On the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Sean O'Kane, Rebecca Bellan, and I discussed what actually promp…

…for a week. The episode is the first real test of whether the U.S. government can use export controls to contain frontier AI the way it has tried, with very uneven results, to contain encryption and spyware before it. And dramatic as it may sound, how this standoff gets resolved could shape not just Anthropic's access…

…once again with the U.S. government. Late last week, President Donald Trump ordered an export control ban on Anthropic's latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, leading to the AI firm being forced to take the models down entirely to avoid noncompliance. For anyone who had "government interference" on their S-1 risk factor…

…semiconductor patterns - may have ended up in China. That would be a major breach of export controls that have barred ASML from selling EUV to China since the first Trump administration. It's a serious claim. Senior administration officials told Bloomberg they have evidence that ASML shipped EUV-related components and…