Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.
TL;DR
Britain lobbied the White House for an exemption from the Anthropic export ban and was told there was “zero chance.” The rejection exposes the UK’s dependence on American AI and strengthens the case for sovereign alternatives.
Sir Keir Starmer’s government spent the weekend lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic’s most capable AI models. A source close to President Trump told The Telegraph there was “zero chance” of a UK carve-out.
The rejection lands as Starmer meets Trump at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, where the ban is expected to come up directly. For thousands of British businesses, it is a sharp lesson in how quickly access to critical AI infrastructure can be switched off by a decision taken in another country.
What happened
On 12 June, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend foreign accessto Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its...
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