It’s also punitive - Anthropic can’t comply, it locks their research staff which is, like any frontier lab, mostly international out.

The objective isn’t national security because we already know how that goes https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-54695598

There’s no path to compliance and the decision is arbitrary - the model capabilities are not officially assessed by any visible criteria and it prevents export of models based on these non criteria forward.

All days before IPO.

KYC angle seems most likely from the US side. If only it was just to benefit Thiel's ventures though, then the issue would be solvable. Unfortunately _everyone_ currently in power, i.e. the whole oligarchy, wants this. Even if Thiel and his companies disappeared tomorrow, they'd keep pushing until they get it through.