六月的一周里,美国商务部迫使Anthropic对全体外国公民禁用Fable 5和Mythos 5,同时司法部在密西西比法院为xAI未获许可的燃气轮机辩护,称其因国家安全过于重要不能关停。两件事方向相反——一边是束缚,一边是盾牌——但共同证明:AI及其伴随的数据中心扩张、前沿模型访问等,正越来越多地被置于国家管控之下。作者中立指出,AI作为国家战略要务,无法任其自然发展;对xAI有利,对Anthropic不利。
In one June week, two things happened that look unrelated but are actually the same story:
The Commerce Department forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national, while the DOJ went to court in Mississippi to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines as too vital to national security to shut off.
Same story, opposite directions - once a leash, once a shield.
Why is this interesting? Because it clearly demonstrates one thing: AI, and everything that goes with it (data center expansion, frontier models, access, etc.), is increasingly being placed under national scrutiny and control.
I mean this in a completely neutral and objective way. AI is such a crucial national strategic issue that there is increasing intervention and adjustment in all its problems.