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Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to take a 50% public stake in the largest AI firms days after Trump floated government equity too, and when the socialist left and nationalist right reach for the same lever, the question is what they both saw.

JPMorgan cut Hong Kong staff off from Claude on June 18, weeks after Goldman did the same, over licensing fine print rather than security, which is how a vague export control the courts would never uphold gets enforced anyway: by private compliance teams.

On June 12 a Commerce letter switched off two Anthropic models worldwide, raising an older question of whether software can be export-controlled at all: America tried once, on encryption, and lost in court, and this control fails on the same three layers.

Higgsfield raised $130M at $1.3B wrapping Veo, Kling and Sora, then spent 30 days getting called a scam; tutorials sell five-figure months, yet the full cost-to-earnings math puts the median Fanvue creator at $150 to $300.