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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.