GovInfoSecurity.com reported that “In response to US export controls on its AI models, the Austrian government wants Europe to tempt Anthropic into moving across the Atlantic.”  The June 29, 2026 article entitled “Austria Urges Anthropic to Move to EU to Avoid US Controls” (https://tinyurl.com/hpfj5fh4) included these comments:

 Stung by the Trump administration’s export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful cyber-capable artificial intelligence models, Mythos and Fable, the Austrian government wants Europe to tempt Anthropic into moving across the Atlantic.

“Let us jointly explore the strategic establishment and participation of Anthropic within the European Union – with legal certainty, market access, capital and a set of values that suits this company,” Alexander Pröll, the Austrian state secretary for digitalization, wrote in a letter sent Saturday afternoon to Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s vice president for tech sovereignty.

On June 12, the U.S. government invoked export controls to bar Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, from being accessed by foreign nationals worldwide, citing national security concerns. The move forced the company to temporarily suspend the models globally because it couldn’t selectively restrict access.

“Overnight, the world’s largest single market – our single market, comprising 450 million people – was cut off from a cutting-edge innovation. Not by our decision. But by that of a foreign government,” Pröll wrote. “This decision was not to be dismissed as a footnote. It was a show of power. And it serves as a reminder of how vulnerable we in Europe are when the key technology of our time lies beyond our sphere of influence and access to it can be withdrawn at the stroke of a pen.”

Pröll said the EU has a short window to lure Anthropic from Silicon Valley and said, “If we want to act, we must act now.”

“The question is whether we Europeans are prepared to be the architects of our technological future, or whether we wish to remain mere administrators of decisions made elsewhere,” he said.

Vincenz Kriegs-Au, Pröll’s spokesperson, confirmed to ISMG on Monday that the state secretary was talking about a wholesale move on Anthropic’s part, not merely the opening of a European subsidiary. The company already has EMEA headquarters in Dublin, with additional EU offices in Paris, Munich and Milan. “Think big,” he said.

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