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888 The Anthropic shutdown was triggered by a single Amazon safety flag, and the G7 just realised every economy built on U.S. AI infrastructure now has a kill switch it doesn’t control

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/18/2026 04:20 EDT

The Anthropic shutdown was triggered by a single Amazon safety flag, and the G7 just realised every economy built on U.S. AI infrastructure now has a kill switch it doesn’t control

At the G7 Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised a question that has been quietly reshaping global technology policy for months: what happens to a country's economy when the AI models it depends on can be switched off by a foreign government?

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