New H-1B posting: Career Consultant - Student Athletes The salary for this position is $47,658 annual per year.

⚡️This is a monster signal. This is the moment frontier AI stops being treated like software and starts being treated like controlled strategic capability. The key phrase is not “customers.” The key phrase is “foreign national Anthropic employees.” That means the state is no longer only controlling chips, model weights, or overseas access. It is moving into cognition access by nationality. That is the real threshold. The U.S. government is saying the highest models are sensitive enough that even people physically inside the United States, working inside the company, may be barred from touching them if their nationality creates deemed-export risk. That is weapons-control logic. This is ITAR logic for intelligence. The corporate language about a “misunderstanding” is probably diplomacy. Companies say that when they need to preserve customer trust, employee morale, and regulatory room. But national security authorities do not force emergency suspension of top model access because someone made a minor paperwork mistake. Something about Fable 5 and Mythos 5 crossed the line: cyber capability, autonomous R&D acceleration, AI-improving-AI utility, bio/security planning, code exploitation, or some blend of all of it. The U.S. state just showed that Anthropic does not fully control Anthropic’s frontier layer. That is the phase change. Labs can brand themselves as public-benefit AI companies. They can talk about safety. They can sell enterprise plans. They can publish model cards. But once the models become national capability, the sovereign arrives. The state does not need to own the company to control the access surface. It only needs legal authority over export, security, procurement, and liability. This confirms the arc we’ve been tracking: Frontier AI becomes state-supervised strategic infrastructure. Public AI splits from strategic AI. Foreign access gets restricted. Labs become quasi-defense contractors. Model access becomes a national security perimeter. Enterprise customers learn that API access is not property. It is revocable permission inside a sovereign-controlled stack. The most important implication is organizational. If foreign national employees can be cut off from frontier systems, AI labs now have to reorganize internally around citizenship, clearance, compartmentalization, and controlled access. That breaks the old Silicon Valley assumption that global talent can freely collaborate around the frontier. The next AI lab structure looks less like Google in 2015 and more like a defense prime crossed with a classified research facility. For markets, the winners are the national champions with U.S.-aligned infrastructure, cleared customer channels, government relationships, compliance capacity, and domestic compute. The losers are open access, foreign-dependent AI wrappers, offshore model distributors, and any enterprise whose moat depends on unrestricted access to frontier APIs. For geopolitics, this is escalation. China will read this correctly. Allies will read this correctly. Every serious state will understand that frontier models are now part of national power. The AI race just moved from “who has the best chatbot” to “who controls cognition as a strategic asset.”

It’s predictable @HooverInst promotes this lie, and it is one. There is no “independent study” - it’s a collection of analogies. & the amount of $$ Hoover sucks up from Tech would make it impossible for Hoover to go the other way. — H1B/OPT is a low wage labor abusive scam. @ChiefEngineerCE @USTechWorkers @TPUSA @iaproject

That’s a wrap. The 114th International Labour Conference ended this afternoon with a general consensus reached on a convention titled, Decent Work In A Platform Economy which has articles that impact gig workers. ilo.org/resource/conference-…

The Strange Case of ‘Number 8’ on DOJ’s Latest Denaturalization List Why did DOJ wait to denaturalize a man who was convicted of immigration-related crimes in 2021? cis.org/Arthur/Strange-Case-… via @CIS_org

Sadly, service will improve.

The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order striking down a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

If you have wondered why your kid who just graduated with a degree in computer science cannot find a job, this may be your answer. cis.org/Miano/More-H1Bs-Ther… via @CIS_org

Under President Trump, the State Department is defending the integrity of U.S. citizenship by ending illegal birth tourism schemes. No foreigner is permitted to obtain a visitor visa for the primary purpose of acquiring U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the U.S.

People often ask what states can do about the H-1B program if it’s federally controlled. Quite a lot, actually. States control their own contracts. They can stop sending taxpayer dollars to H-1B-dependent outsourcing firms, particularly those that have lost lawsuits for discriminating against American workers in favor of H-1B employees. @ZachLahn, who’s running for Iowa governor, has promised to end this practice. This is the kind of pledge you need from state leaders who are serious about reducing the footprint of H-1B outsourcing in their states. The next step is making sure they deliver. Campaign promises are easy; voters have to hold them accountable once they’re elected.

I thought I understood how America's immigration system worked. Then I sat down with John Miano. Some of what he revealed left me speechless. rumble.com/v7b1aqo-foreign-w…

A View from the Frontlines: Why the Court’s Rejection of the $100,000 H-1B Fee Safeguards Corporate Fraud, Not the Rule of Law cis.org/Siddiqui/View-Frontl… via @CIS_org

The judge who struck down the $100,000 fee argued that immigration laws do not authorize the president to impose what amounts to a “tax”. Fine. Then the administration should invoke Section 212(f) and suspend consular processing for new initial H-1B petitions instead. The fee was accomplishing essentially the same objective. Given the ongoing wave of layoffs across the tech sector and other industries, the administration would have a strong argument that such a suspension is necessary to protect employment opportunities for U.S. workers.