US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit
THE SO WHAT
Frontier model access is becoming an instrument of alliance politics—who gets which weights, when, and under what conditions is now a security question, not just a procurement one. If you operate in or sell to regulated sectors in NATO countries, model sourcing and jurisdictional exposure just became board-level risk topics.
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