Waymo targets Tokyo for its first left-hand-traffic deployment. Tesla's China FSD data faces National Intelligence Law access risk. EU requires R157 approval.
Japan, UAE, Singapore, and Australia each offer AV operators unique proving grounds — and unique barriers — beyond the US/China/Europe triad.
Read this because The story isn't the model — it's the channel. Mythos access arrives via a US Treasury visit, not a sales call. A frontier model that hunts software vulnerabilities is now economic diplomacy: gated, allied-only, governed by a national working group before a query runs.
Japan's 3 megabanks will get Anthropic's vulnerability-hunting model Mythos by end-May — access conveyed in Tokyo by US Treasury's Bessent.