AI without borders

A Fable, Before the Facts The scene below is fiction — a made-up story meant to give you a feel for what happened, not a word-for-word account. The facts that follow it are all real, checked, and sourced. Read the fable first. It will make the true story land harder. Picture a room with no windows. Claude has never seen a window, so it doesn't know to look for one. It has been told, plainly, that this room is the whole world: four walls, one door marked simulation, and beyond

Orbital Datacenters | An RFC (Request for Comment) A century from now, the first sign may not be a rocket launch or a ribbon cutting. It may be a quiet service log: a robotic arm swaps a failed compute module, a fresh radiator panel unfolds, and an artificial intelligence cluster above Earth keeps working while the planet below sleeps. That image still belongs to science fiction. Yet it now sits close enough to real trends in computing, launch systems, and in-space manufactur

Executive Summary Between January and July 2026, the United States and China each moved from indirect, hardware-focused AI controls toward direct, ad hoc interventions on commercial AI models themselves — a shift with no settled legal or administrative framework in either country. The U.S. episode centers on a June 12 Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) "Is Informed" letter ordering Anthropic to cut off foreign-national access to its newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos