Anthropic's founding story — safety-first researchers who left OpenAI because the pace was too fast — has always been more than a marketing position. It was a recruitment tool, a regulatory posture, and a fundraising argument. The irony now is that the same safety warnings Anthropic made publicly may have accelerated its own export restrictions, creating a loop where credibility about risk becomes grounds for exclusion from markets . French and European parliamentarians who found themselves cut off from Mythos 5 were not debating AI safety in the abstract — they were locked out of a product their institutions had started to depend on
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