Why India cannot afford to rent its intelligence: The case for sovereign AI infrastructure

On the evening of 12 June 2026, the most capable artificial intelligence on the planet vanished for everyone who wasn’t American. Anthropic had released Fable 5 barely three days earlier; then an export-control order arrived from Washington, and the company had little choice but to pull the model for every foreign national on earth,  Indians included,  overnight. Access limped back weeks later, rationed to a fraction of its normal limits.