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Treasury Widens AI Controls From Chips to Distillation
Jul 22, 2026SOURCE: themeridiem.com
SO WHAT
The window is closing on easy arbitrage; the fight is becoming about who can legally reproduce intelligence, not just who can power it.
US sanctions are moving up the stack, targeting model distillation instead of only hardware. The wire is clear: control is shifting from atoms to cognition.
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