Apple once faced a US export control on its 'supercomputer.' Steve Jobs turned it into a marketing moment.

Anthropic is far from the first first Silicon Valley giant to trigger US government export controls. Apple turned the prospect of a 1999 export limit on the Power Mac G4 into an ad campaign. JOHN G. MABANGLO / AFP via Getty Images Steve Jobs once turned the prospect of a US export restriction into a marketing moment. In 1999, Apple's Power Mac G4 "supercomputer" exceeded the allowed computing threshold for US exports to some countries. Apple released an ad that leaned into the US government'...