Perhaps not directly tied to last week’s removal of Fable 5, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the performance benchmarks among the American frontier models aren’t the primary variable when it comes to broad, global AI adoption.

Earlier today it was announced that Microsoft is considering Deepseek for a lower cost Copilot alternative. Then came this news here that the US government has made the decision to forgo adding Deepseek to its ever expanding “entity list”.

You can’t be a little bit pregnant and American policy makers either need to take on China with serious intention or accept that there isn’t the political courage to do what is necessary and be done with the whole façade.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/17/us-deepseek-blacklist-cxmt-national-security-risks-.html