One export rule. One acquisition. Either can pull your AI tool out from under you before lunch.

This week both happened.

A US export-control directive forced Anthropic to cut off foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. To comply, they disabled the models broadly. One day they're in your workflow. The next, a government decides who can call them.

Then SpaceX bought Cursor in a reported $60 billion deal. If your team standardized on Cursor, the owner of your IDE just changed.

The AI tool you picked is a dependency too. One you don't control. And the forces that can pull it away are bigger than a deprecated library. Export rules. Acquisitions. Regulation.

So "which agent is best" now sits next to a harder question. What happens to my team if this vendor gets acquired, repriced, or regulated out of our region?

If your main coding model went dark tomorrow, what's your second choice? And have you actually tried it?

Full breakdown in this week's episode of The Human in the Loop. Link in the comments.

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