News Summary

• On 12 June, thousands of organizations discovered an uncomfortable truth about the AI tools they had started building into their businesses.
• The US government issued an export-control directive affecting two Anthropic models.
• Anthropic responded by disabling them for every customer.
• The restrictions were later lifted, but that is hardly reassuring.
• It’s a wake-up call that many claimed that they had after the Cloudflare outage… or the CrowdStrike outage.
• If any one of them becomes an immovable dependency, the organization is less sovereign than it thinks.