One export rule. One acquisition. Either can pull your AI tool out from under you before lunch.

This week both happened.

A US export-control directive forced Anthropic to cut off foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. To comply, they disabled the models broadly. One day they're in your workflow. The next, a government decides who can call them.

Then SpaceX bought Cursor in a reported $60 billion deal. If your team standardized on Cursor, the owner of your IDE just changed.

The AI tool you picked is a dependency too. One you don't control. And the forces that can pull it away are bigger than a deprecated library. Export rules. Acquisitions. Regulation.

So "which agent is best" now sits next to a harder question. What happens to my team if this vendor gets acquired, repriced, or regulated out of our region? ...