America’s AI edge is trust. China is betting we’ll squander it

On June 12, the U.S. government directed Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, inside or outside the United States. The order forced the company to disable both models worldwide. Days later, Beijing-based Zhipu rolled out GLM-5.2, a near-frontier, open-weight system that users could download and run locally. […]