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Anatomy of a Shakedown

Pressure converting into property: Washington flipped the kill switch on a frontier AI model while asking the industry to hand over a piece.

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Steve Little
Jun 15, 2026
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The ultimatum arrived by phone; the letter arrived at 5:21

On Friday, June 12, around one o’clock Eastern time, Anthropic got a call from the U.S. government. The message was blunt: take down your two…

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