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title: "Chapter 8, the state switched the access off, due 31 December 2027 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-24
description: "Chapter 8, the state switched the access off: due 31 December 2027."
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# Chapter 8, the state switched the access off

Due 31 December 2027

**The test.** Withdrawn if the record shows that the withdrawal was the company’s own decision rather than the state’s.

open Open.

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

**Falls due:** 31 December 2027

**Read on:** A court record or the Department’s own filings

**Chapter:** [Chapter 8 — The Arsenal Behind Every Arsenal](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-8)The state as customer: how the Pentagon buys frontier AI, the contract clauses a laboratory fought over, and what the courts said about a company that would not sign.

## Filings that bear on it

- [Legion LegalTech, Corp. v. United States, D.D.C. No. 1:26-cv-02225-RJL, complaint, ECF 1, filed 23 June 2026, and the notice of dismissal, ECF 7, filed 3 July 2026](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/legion-complaint-jun26)Legion LegalTech sued on 23 June 2026 over Commerce’s directive of 12 June placing export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and dropped the suit on 3 July after Commerce rescinded it on 30 June.

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## Related in the record

- Chapter notes [Chapter 8 — The Arsenal Behind Every Arsenal](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-8)

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*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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