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The chips and compute that power AI, and the export controls around them.
An export-control directive reaching every foreign national forced Anthropic to switch its best model off for everyone. The mechanism matters more than the model.
Guidance tying the rules to a company's parent, not its address, redraws where advanced AI chips can legally go.
If Anthropic runs Claude on Microsoft's custom silicon, it won't just be a chip story — it will be a strategic repositioning of how frontier AI labs manage infrastructure risk.
$81.6bn in three months. The question isn't whether demand is real — it's how long it compounds, and what it means for every firm that depends on this one supply chain.