Anthropic moves to close loopholes that allow Chinese access to Claude

AI performance is quickly solidifying itself as a core commodity, not just for public consumption & productivity, but also for national defense and intelligence gathering. Allowing China access to our frontier models, which they use to train their own at a cheaper rate, jeopardizes our lead in that technological race. As we head into a more conflict-ridden world, the next generation of warfare and defense is empowered by AI - you only have to look to recent actions within the Ukraine-Russia war to confirm it, where autonomous drone swarms have transformed the landscape.