Anthropic export controls turned an abstract policy fear into a live one last week: as of June 13, 2026, one US government directive took the company's two most powerful AI models offline for users everywhere, including, briefly, Anthropic's own foreign-born employees, and set off alarm bells across Europe and Canada about who really controls the [...] The post The AI off switch: How Anthropic's export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble appeared first on AI News.