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The layer that determines who can use the most capable AI systems has always sat inside the companies that build them.
Access decisions, including API terms and voluntary export controls, have been made unilaterally by model providers, keeping frontier AI a commercial question rather than a federal one.
The Trump administration is now moving to change that, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to CNBC, in a shift those sources described as pulling meaningful power away from the technology giants.
The access layer and why it concentrates power Frontier models sit at the top of the AI capability stack.
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