THE BROAD VIEW
AI has granted America vast new power
Its government is now the gatekeeper to frontier models – and most compute
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Sat, Jun 20, 2026 · 07:00 AM
THE news is full of how an ignominious peace deal with Iran exemplifies a decline in American power. That conclusion could hardly be more wrong.
On Jun 12, the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block foreigners from Fable and Mythos, its latest and most capable frontier AI models. In an instant, everyone learned that the American government can decide who may use the world’s most important technology.
You don’t get much more powerful than that.
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