The shutdown of Anthropic, creators of Claude, provides a sobering reminder that the United States, the world leaders in frontier AI, can also decide who gets to use it. In the UK, the AI and online safety minister used the shutdown to argue that Britain must build its own AI, and in France, the former Prime Minister called it the start of ‘the AI war’, saying that France remains exposed so long as it depends on the technology of others. He’s right, and in no field is this more consequential than defence. Many military systems habitually used by European countries…
