A president who treats the press, universities, libraries, civil servants and scientific data as things to dominate should not decide in secret who gets access to the most powerful information tools ever built.
Export control may be the legal label. The practical effect is domestic access control. And the political danger is plain: a government that restricts public access to intelligence tools while preserving privileged access for itself is not disarming the technology. It is arming the state.
Part II on Wedneday this week: If American AI becomes permissioned infrastructure, Canada and Europe have a chance to build the democratic alternative — starting with power, compute and sovereignty.
Bibliography
1. OpenAI, “Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: A next-generation model,” June 2026. Reuters, “OpenAI defers public rollout of GPT-5.6 as U.S. seeks early access to frontier AI models,” June 26, 2026.
2. Reuters, “Anthropic disables top-tier AI models after U.S. order limiting foreign access,” June 13–15, 2026. Business Insider, “Anthropic’s Mythos 5 gets a limited carveout from U.S. restrictions,” June 2026.
3. UK AI Security Institute, “Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities,” June 2026. Anthropic, “Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5,” June 2026.
4. White House, “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” Executive Order, June 2, 2026. Skadden, “New AI Executive Order Calls for Frontier Model Security Framework,” June 2026. Wiley, “New AI Executive Order Addresses Frontier Models and Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities,” June 2026.
5. Reuters reporting on FCC license reviews, media merger scrutiny and broadcast investigations, 2025–2026. PBS NewsHour reporting on judicial action blocking Trump’s order targeting NPR/PBS funding, 2026. American Library Association statement on the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2025. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and National Security Archive reporting on removed or altered federal health and climate data, 2025–2026.
6. Reuters and Wall Street Journal reporting on DeepSeek, Chinese open-model competition, Zhipu GLM and Anthropic’s allegations concerning Claude capability extraction, 2026. Artificial Analysis model leaderboards, 2026. Alibaba Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot Kimi, Zhipu GLM and MiniMax public model documentation, 2026.
7. Wired, Steven Levy, report from VivaTech on European AI sovereignty, Trump, Anthropic export controls, Cohere, Yann LeCun’s Project Tapestry and European AI infrastructure efforts, June 2026. Reuters, “U.S. curbs on AI spur European firms to spread the risk,” June 2026.