Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles travelled to San Francisco and said he wanted Anthropic, the AI giant behind Claude, to find a “second home” in Australia, presenting Australia’s political and geological stability, its infrastructure, and its Five Eyes membership as reasons for future investment. The article says this raises the question of what would make AI capacity that moves from the United States become Australian enough to count as sovereign, noting Australia has spent decades grappling with the contradiction between technological integration with allies and retaining national control. Material shared through Five Eyes and other sources can be restricted to Australian personnel with the designation AUSTEO, Australian Eyes Only, but AI makes the object being protected much harder to define. It cites the F-35, whose capabilities require ongoing reprogramming and updates, and says Anthropic operates a pipeline of models activated then retired in short succession, so Australia could negotiate perfect sovereign access to a frontier model today and find the capacity has shifted to a successor within six months.