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> where you will be allowed to conduct your business without vindictive and Kafkaesque government interference

Isn't this basically the reason that no major tech labs or startups ever come out of Canada or Europe though?

No, that’s mostly because there’s no capital market for building mid-sized businesses.

Anthropic is past that. They’d have no trouble moving if they wanted to, except the USG could stop them.

I'd say the UK would be better. DeepMind is in London.

famously friendly business environments europe & canada

lol

Well, as long as you stick to the rules you can do business in Europe and it can't be taken away from you.

As long as you are in the US? No one protects you. Asset forfeiture, arbitrary sanctions, arbitrary tariffs, your employees can get arrested and deported right off the street if they happen to have non-white skin and live in a city under siege by ICE, and if you oppose the regime or just dare to not kiss the ring, say goodbye to planned mergers.

Rule of law matters, and rule of law is gone in the US.

I think Anthropic could manage