America and China are running different races on AI

Just days after Anthropic launched its new frontier AI model, Claude Fable 5, US officials I placed an order to the company Restricting access to foreign nationals citing national security concerns. Within hours, Anthropic suspended all customers’ access to the model. As restrictions were lifted on June 30, the stock market underlined how quickly artificial intelligence is becoming an arena of geopolitical competition.

It’s a reality that Silicon Valley’s most hawkish AI figures are urging Washington to acknowledge. In early 2025, as Donald Trump returns to the White House for his second term, artificial intelligence wunderkind Alexandr Wang full page ad inside Washington Post He called on the new administration to take radical steps to gain superiority over China in technological competition.