The Trump administration drew a sharp new line this week, accusing Chinese AI startup Moonshot of "covert, industrial-scale distillation" to copy Anthropic's Fable model — and warning that sanctions and Entity List designations are now on the table. This isn't just rhetoric: it's the foundation for a potential new wave of US restrictions targeting Chinese AI companies without broadly limiting the open-weight models that Silicon Valley increasingly relies on.

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