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Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to take a 50% public stake in the largest AI firms. Days earlier, Trump floated the government taking equity too. When the socialist left and the nationalist right reach for the same lever, the interesting question isn't the policy — it's what they both saw.

JPMorgan cut Hong Kong staff off from Claude on June 18, weeks after Goldman did the same. The reason wasn't security — it was licensing fine print. That 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. Strip the news and a harder question remains: can you export-control software at all? America tried once before, on encryption, and lost in court. 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. The median Fanvue creator earns $150 to $300. The full cost-to-earnings math.