
The U.S. wants to win the AI race, but it just slowed the companies leading it. Anthropic faced a two-week shutdown. Mythos 5 only got limited clearance. Fable 5 stayed blocked. OpenAI also limited GPT-5.6 rollout after a government request. Meanwhile, China’s GLM-5.2 is getting serious attention as a cheaper, credible competitor. The risk is not China building the best model first. It is China shipping faster while the U.S. blocks its own leaders.
