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AI Weekly Issue #503: Washington just repriced frontier AI

The US government yanked Anthropic's newest models days after launch, while state attorneys general opened formal process against OpenAI. That turns frontier capability into something investors have to discount: a model can be state-of-the-art on Monday and policy-frozen by Friday. The market still

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