It’s now readily demonstrable that Anthropic’s political advocacy and advertising have caused substantial harm to America’s position in the global AI race. There has long been an understanding that, for America to lead the world in this entirely new domain, a critical imperative is to keep the government from suffocating this technology with regulations before it even comes close to achieving its potential.

Unfortunately, Anthropic’s policy network has done our country a grave disservice by inviting, or more aptly, begging, for government intervention in a bid to further its own selfish interests at the expense of America’s technological supremacy. This is evidenced by the export controls the government recently placed on OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, which came on the heels of similar export controls lobbed against Anthropic.