AI is too important to govern by grudge

Last Friday, the U.S. government did something extraordinary. It in effect forced one of America’s leading artificial intelligence companies to withdraw its most advanced product from the market. Anthropic, the maker of the frontier AI model Mythos and its commercially available cousin Fable, was given little warning and, according to reports, roughly 90 minutes to comply.

If you missed the story, that is understandable. It unfolded in the shadow of the administration’s retreat from the Iran war. But in the long run, this may prove more consequential. Because the fight between Washington and Anthropic is not really about one company. It is the first visible battle over who governs AI — and whether that governance will happen through rules and institutions or through improvisation and raw power.

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