Breaking news: US Commerce Department effectively shuts down Anthropic’s latest models

I can’t believe I am writing this. The Commerce department just ordered an export control directive (quoting Anthropic) “to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5” by foreign nationals — even their own employees.

Dean W. Ball wrote

Dean W. Ball@deanwball

I can’t tell if this is lawfare against Anthropic in particular or extreme national-security hawkery. Regardless, it is simply cartoonish.

12:42 AM · Jun 13, 2026 · 8.46K Views

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I have my reservations about generative AI, but this is not the way.