The AI Compute Race Glossary Deemed export

Deemed export

What does “Deemed export” mean?

Deemed export

The export-control doctrine under which letting a foreign person use a controlled technology, inside or outside the United States, counts as exporting it and needs a license. The June 2026 directive to Anthropic applied it to a chatbot, reaching the developer’s own foreign-national staff. Chapter 14.

From The AI Compute Race. Read the book

Where the book uses it

  • Chapter 14 — The Convergence

    One campus, Meta’s Hyperion, run through four possible futures to show how science, power, money and permission meet in the price of an accelerator-hour.

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From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

How to cite this page

Dryburgh, Lee S. “Deemed export.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/deemed-export (accessed 2026-11-01).

BibTeX

@misc{dryburgh-deemed-export-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Deemed export}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/deemed-export},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}

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