Anthropic’s Models Hyped as Scarily Powerful Apparently Scared the Government Too Much and Now They’re Disabled
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When a leading model family can be pulled offline globally overnight, AI risk is now a live operational dependency, not an abstract policy topic. If your roadmap leans on any single vendor’s frontier models, you need contingency plans for abrupt regulatory or self-imposed shutdowns.
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