June 17, 2026

Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.

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Sir Keir Starmer’s government spent the weekend lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic’s most capable AI models. A source close to President Trump told The Telegraph there was “zero chance” of a UK carve-out. The rejection la...