💻 Technology Sep 9, 2026 · Richard Forss

If you lost your LLM tomorrow, would you still have a business?

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On a Saturday in the middle of June, Anthropic switched off its two newest models for every customer on the planet. Not throttled. Off. The US Department of Commerce had decided that foreign nationals should not have access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and since nobody can verify a user’s nationality in real time, the only way to comply was to turn the lights off for everyone. They came back on 17 days later.
So if I were starting a European AI company today, my first question would not

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