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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked diplomats to push back against talk of a "kill switch" in American technology products following the White House's short-lived decision to keep foreigners from America's most advanced AI models, according to a recent cable reviewed by Reuters.

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... The talking points, which were circulated worldwide, show how U.S. diplomats are trying to deal with international backlash from the Trump administration's efforts to control how and to whom American AI companies release their models.

The State Department declined to comment and the White House did not return a request for comment.

The Trump administration's June 12 move to block non-U.S. residents from Anthropic's most advanced models, Mythos and Fable, on national security grounds prompted the AI company to abruptly suspend access to the models globally. Asian tech executives seized on the disruption to tout their own alternatives and European lawmakers redoubled their calls for digital independence from the United States. ...

European lawmaker Christophe Grudler said the episode showed that "the U.S. holds a real kill-switch' over essential technologies and that they are more than willing to use it." Aura Salla, a member of the European People's Party, the European Parliament's biggest political group, said that the continent "cannot keep building its tech stack on access that can be switched off overnight by a foreign government." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-22 02:13 PM | Reply

Too late.

#2 | Posted by Scotty at 2026-07-22 03:52 PM | Reply

"The diabolical Trumpf junta have not shown us any indication that they are reliable partners," said a European lawmaker.

~snip~

Or negotiators.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-22 04:02 PM | Reply

Jared Kushner's best contribution to the Trump administration was buying a copy of Peter Navarro's book "Death by China", where fictional expert Ron Vara guided Trump's entire China trade strategy.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-22 04:10 PM | Reply

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