The US government's playbook for frontier AI regulation is crystallizing: impose emergency export controls based on a threat report, negotiate behind closed doors, lift them with new guardrails — and claim the process was deliberate all along. The bet is that speed beats perfection. The risk is that rivals are watching, and learning.

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Late Tuesday, the Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an **18-day...