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Washington's Informal AI Veto: A New Variable in Every Deployment Plan

Governments are asserting control over which AI capabilities can be released, to whom, and when — inserting political and regulatory variables into what were previously commercial deployment decisions.

4 signals tracked

  1. US pre-clearance regime bifurcates global frontier AI market

  2. US model staggering and export controls open doors for Chinese rivals

  3. First model-level control sets precedent; enforcement remains porous

  4. Washington Targets Model Distillation as China Builds Its Own Stack