There you have it! Jensen Huang just warned Washington to be "careful not to over-exercise" expor…
June 24, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! Jensen Huang just warned Washington to be "careful not to over-exercise" export controls — and in the same breath, a reporter asked whether the government should use those controls to force Anthropic's models to get "pulled back."
Sit with that.
The most powerful chipmaker on earth is saying the tool is too blunt. And the room is already debating using it to throttle one specific American company.
That is the part nobody wants to say out loud.
Export controls were sold as a wall around China. In practice they handed Huawei a captive domestic market, accelerated China's own stack, and taught Beijing to build without us. I called that backfire two years ago.
Now watch the same tool turn inward.
When the government starts deciding which American AI lives and which one gets "pulled back," that is not security policy anymore. That is a referee who owns one of the teams.
And here is the trap: these controls never get applied equally.
One company gets squeezed. Its competitor gets a quiet pass. Same technology. Same risk. Different phone number to the right office.
We already watched it happen. Anthropic got slapped with the "supply chain risk" label we reserve for Huawei and Kaspersky, while a former insider's Google walked off with the Pentagon AI market. Nobody made Google or OpenAI "pull anything back."
That is not national security. That is industrial policy with a security sticker on it.
A government that can flip the switch on one model can flip it on any of them. Whoever loses the lobbying war loses the product.
Huang sees it clearly. Precision matters. Over-exercise the tool and you get the unintended consequence of strengthening the exact adversary you were aiming at.
We keep building weapons that point backward.
The danger was never that we would regulate AI. The danger is that we would regulate it selectively, then call the favoritism "safety."
Picture the founder who follows every rule, ships the better model, and still gets shut down because someone with better access whispered the word "risk" in the right office.
That is the country we are sliding toward.
The question isn't whether we control AI. It is who gets to decide which American company is too dangerous to win.
If you want to keep up with the craziness of AI news and get unbiased stories, check out https://lnkd.in/e2FPSD_Q
Thoughts?
Sit with that.
The most powerful chipmaker on earth is saying the tool is too blunt. And the room is already debating using it to throttle one specific American company.
That is the part nobody wants to say out loud.
Export controls were sold as a wall around China. In practice they handed Huawei a captive domestic market, accelerated China's own stack, and taught Beijing to build without us. I called that backfire two years ago.
Now watch the same tool turn inward.
When the government starts deciding which American AI lives and which one gets "pulled back," that is not security policy anymore. That is a referee who owns one of the teams.
And here is the trap: these controls never get applied equally.
One company gets squeezed. Its competitor gets a quiet pass. Same technology. Same risk. Different phone number to the right office.
We already watched it happen. Anthropic got slapped with the "supply chain risk" label we reserve for Huawei and Kaspersky, while a former insider's Google walked off with the Pentagon AI market. Nobody made Google or OpenAI "pull anything back."
That is not national security. That is industrial policy with a security sticker on it.
A government that can flip the switch on one model can flip it on any of them. Whoever loses the lobbying war loses the product.
Huang sees it clearly. Precision matters. Over-exercise the tool and you get the unintended consequence of strengthening the exact adversary you were aiming at.
We keep building weapons that point backward.
The danger was never that we would regulate AI. The danger is that we would regulate it selectively, then call the favoritism "safety."
Picture the founder who follows every rule, ships the better model, and still gets shut down because someone with better access whispered the word "risk" in the right office.
That is the country we are sliding toward.
The question isn't whether we control AI. It is who gets to decide which American company is too dangerous to win.
If you want to keep up with the craziness of AI news and get unbiased stories, check out https://lnkd.in/e2FPSD_Q
Thoughts?