They’re relying on a legal authority that only allows them to restrict non-Americans. Since Anthropic can’t tell the difference anyway, the actual effect has been to shut down everybody, at least for now.
Unusually for this administration, I think they probably actually do have legal authority to do this… assuming it’s up to date to cover cloud services. I’m not sure I think they should have that authority, but there it is.
They’re relying on a legal authority that only allows them to restrict non-Americans. Since Anthropic can’t tell the difference anyway, the actual effect has been to shut down everybody, at least for now.
Unusually for this administration, I think they probably actually do have legal authority to do this… assuming it’s up to date to cover cloud services. I’m not sure I think they should have that authority, but there it is.