Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI

Article excerpt

Anthropic abruptly took its newest AI models offline over the weekend after the Trump administration demanded the company block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. The sudden shutdown, imposed with minimal warning, illustrated how U.S. government power extends beyond controlling frontier AI development to determining who can access it globally. The incident has prompted international observers to reconsider their dependence on American AI systems and accelerated conversations about building sovereign AI capabilities outside U.S. jurisdiction, underscoring geopolitical tensions in the race for artificial intelligence dominance.