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Export Controls

Export controls restrict which countries and end-users can legally receive tech, encryption, and hardware. Learn compliance requirements, restricted item lists, and enforcement risk.

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Export Controls

Lesson Six: The AI Security Risks Export Controls Were Never Built to Catch

Here is the advice you have heard in every hearing, every think-tank white paper, every op-ed on AI and national security since the export rules started tightening: control the chips.

D David Thornton
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Ai Regulation

The Sixth Lesson of AI Regulation: Export Controls Are Now Enforced by Phone Call

When a frontier lab disabled a cybersecurity-capable model in late 2025, it did not do so because a rule told it to. It did so because someone from the government called and said to.

M Michael Townsend
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Ai Regulation

AI Regulation and Export Controls: When a Government Order Can Switch Off Your Product Overnight

I spent a decade telling founders that AI regulation and export controls were a problem for next year's general counsel, not this quarter's product roadmap.

W William Novak
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Ai Policy

The Number That Explains Why Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Suddenly Obsessed With Export Controls

There is a number that gets quoted in almost every story about Gulf money and artificial intelligence: forty billion dollars.

K Katherine Henley
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