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AI has granted America vast new power.
Its government is now the gatekeeper to frontier models—and most compute.
The news is full of how an ignominious peace deal with Iran exemplifies a decline in American power. That conclusion could hardly be more wrong. On June 12th the Trump administration ordered Anthropi… [+6104 chars]