Trump’s Anthropic Crackdown Sets Off AI Alarms for US Allies (1)

June 16, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

With the recent crackdown on Anthropic, the Trump administration has given global leaders another reason to panic about their place in the technology race.

On Friday, the US ordered Anthropic PBC to deny foreign nationals access to the company’s newest artificial intelligence models. The export ban asserted a broad, unprecedented authority over the technology.

Until then, conversations in Europe about losing access to US tech - sometimes posed as a presidential “kill switch” — were theoretical. To many on the continent, Friday’s move underscored the dire need to find alternatives to American AI, and fast.

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