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As we know, and as the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, talked about, these risks are not hypothetical. In June, the US Department of Commerce issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to two of its newest models by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the US. It took effect immediately. The company shut down both models for every user worldwide. There was a gap of 18 days. The episode ended okay, but it was a service in live commercial deployment, on which British organisations had begun to build, being switched off globally by a decision of another Government, without notice and with no British voice in the room. If it had been running a public service, we would have had no remedy; we would simply have had to wait.