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How Brussels can avoid becoming a digital vassal to US Big Tech

An export-control order in June exposed the real problem—and why Europe's regulatory toolkit can't fix it. [1]The most important AI-governance development of 2026 so far wasn’t a model release. It was an export-control order. On June 12, the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security directed Anthropic to