The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone. Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 worldwide late on Friday 12 June, three days […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 demonstrates the danger of depending on a small number of powerful AI models. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Ireland, Carney framed the suspension as a warning about systemic vulnerability rather […]
When the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June, the export control directive was aimed at restricting foreign nationals from accessing America’s most capable AI. In India, Anthropic’s second-largest market, it landed as a warning shot about what happens when your AI infrastructure runs on someone else’s […]
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Anthropic’s Fable 5 spent three days as the most capable AI model ever released to the public. It topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, crushed OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 on coding benchmarks by double-digit margins, and gave paying subscribers access to Mythos-class reasoning for the first time. Then, on June 12, the US government ordered Anthropic to […]
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was reportedly the source of security concerns that led the US government to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other officials that Amazon researchers used Fable 5 to obtain […]
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