U.S. Export Controls and Military Token Quotas Enclose Frontier AI
July 22, 2026
The U.S. Commerce Department's restriction of Anthropic models to foreign nationals and the U.S. Army's sudden rationing of AI tokens reveal a state apparatus scrambling to cage frontier computational power. Meanwhile, Chinese labs like Moonshot advance past Western trade barriers, and OpenAI employees fund a rival political action committee to challenge executive leadership over the direction of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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Legally or not, the US government is controlling global access to the world’s most powerful AI
The U.S. government is 'caging' the most powerful commercial AI models. Wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images When the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic on June 12, 2026, to immediately prevent all foreign nationals from using the artificial intelligence company’s two most advanced large langua…
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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.
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America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly co…
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The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.
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Can AI systems make moral decisions in war?
As more militaries adopt AI technology into their kill chain, Al Jazeera asks if they are capable of moral judgement.
- geopolitics
- structural power
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Dr. Jill Lepore on why AI backlash is vital for the future
Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25. Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about sy…
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The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview
- AI governance
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OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.