AI Gateway Ambiguity Creates Compliance Risk

When a government bans a model provider, agencies may still access that provider indirectly through third‑party gateways (API routers, edge gateways) that dynamically route to the 'best' backend. That routing ambiguity makes it hard for procurement and security teams to know whether they are in compliance, forcing costly audits, contractual changes, or blanket bans on entire gateway services. — This reframes AI regulation from vendor lists to an operational problem: governments must regulate and monitor intermediaries (gateways) to make model bans enforceable and avoid inadvertent non‑compliance.