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National security or AI protectionism?

July 22, 2026
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The obvious interpretation is: the United States wants to protect its intellectual property. But the less comfortable interpretation is: it also wants to protect the business model of its national AI champions. That's the contrarian point that needs to be made. Not every national security policy is false, but many national security policies

The obvious interpretation is: the United States wants to protect its intellectual property. But the less comfortable interpretation is: it also wants to protect the business model of its national AI champions. That’s the contrarian point that needs to be made. Not every national security policy is false, but many national security policies also have very clear corporate winners. And in this case, the potential winners are the American labs that have raised enormous amounts of capital on one promise: that their models will remain scarce, superior, and monetizable. If open models suddenly appear that come close to the performance of closed models and cost a fraction as much, that narrative weakens.

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