No one that can see behind the very thin curtains should be surprised in any way that the US government wants their hand in *everything* that has potential geo-strategic implication. Internet has. Social Networks have. GAI has.

There is no US empire, no globalization, no pax americana and no US as we know it for the last 100 years without all of that (and many more things)

It is either that or someone else doing the same things but more and better and become dominant. That's the way it is and has always been, with just someone else in US place.