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Anthropic's Model Suspension, Europe 2031, and G7 World Leaders Lunching with Frontier AI Lab & Tech CEOs: The Week in Tech & Trust with Yours Truly (EP 29)

Anthropic's Model Suspension, Europe 2031, and G7 World Leaders Lunching with Frontier AI Lab & Tech CEOs: The Week in Tech & Trust with Yours Truly (EP 29)

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️ solo episode with host Eva Simone Lihotzky

Anthropic's frontier AI model was pulled offline for every
non-American in three days, and suddenly Europe's AI access
looked less like something it owns and more like a permission.
This is a week where digital trust stopped being abstract: one US
export directive, one warning about Europe's compute future, and
one lunch table where the people who build AI sat with the people
who govern it. For any leader applying AI inside an organisation,
it is a week worth understanding in practice, not as headlines.

In this episode

In a single week of June 2026, three events landed that most
coverage treated as separate. Eva reads them as one thread. The
US Commerce Department forced Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models
offline for any foreign national. The Europe 2031 agenda argued
that Europe's window to matter in AI is closing faster than its
own authors had predicted. And for the first time, Frontier AI
lab CEOs sat at the G7 heads-of-state table. The question
underneath all three: when access to the most strategic
technology of the moment sits on someone else's permission, what
does a European organisation actually own? Eva works through what
this means for vendor dependency, infrastructure design, and the
difference between treating AI sovereignty as a compute problem
and treating it as a trust problem.

Key themes

Why "access" to a frontier AI model may be a permission that
someone else can withdraw — and what that does to a strategy
built on it

The gap between Europe's AI story as a capital problem and
the trust assumption sitting underneath it

What changes for a leader when vendor lock-in stops being a
risk slide and becomes a live event

Whether building infrastructure and orchestration across many
models is now resilience rather than over-engineering

When the builders of AI also shape the rules that govern it,
who represents the people using it

️ About the host

Eva Simone Lihotzky, AI adoption and ethics advisor, formerly MD
in one of the largest independent agency groups in Europe and
co-author of 10 Moral Questions: How to Design Tech & AI
Responsibly. She has spent more than a decade leading AI
implementation inside organisations, which is why this episode
resists the easy reads — it stays with the gray zone between
hypocrisy and conviction, between capital and trust, rather than
resolving it. This is a solo reflection: Eva connecting three
news events into one question she openly admits is hard to narrow
down.

️ Chapters

[00:00] Three news items, one thread

[02:22] A frontier model offline in three days

[08:00] Europe 2031: the window that closed early

[11:30] Mistral, and the scale of the gap

[18:45] The G7 table: builders meet the people who govern
them

[25:10] Who represents the ones using the technology

Links

Eva Simone Lihotzky on LinkedIn —
https://www.linkedin.com/in/evalihotzky/

Europe 2031 agenda — https://europe2031.ai

10 Moral Questions: How to Design Tech & AI
Responsibly — https://www.10moralquestions.com/the-book

Eva's World Economic Forum reflection, January 2026 — The
politics of tech on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1RKtxdJWXcQH8vnpnDtgEP?si=wrln7peeSkKb-gotGHYMRg

Eva's World Economic Forum reflection, January 2026 — The
politics of tech on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-in-between-tech-and-trust-podcast/id1828521905?l=en-GB&i=1000747143762

Anthropic statement on the Fable / Mythos suspension —
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access