[itopaloglu83]

Or in the case of ASML machines, any company you can pressure to comply with your policies either by restricting their access to the technology you control or politics between governments.

[t0mas88]

But do they want to start a game of chicken with Google? Doing it to Anthropic is one thing, they're much smaller and less B2C. But Google is far more powerful and likely to defend their UK/EU business because they're also fucked if they don't.

[itopaloglu83]

Possibly. But we also need to keep in mind that Google gave governments access to their internal data center traffic unencrypted for years.