“The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure complianceFollowing laws and industry rules — privacy, security, and financial regulations for software companies..”

Commerce ordered AnthropicAn AI safety company — creators of the Claude family of language models. to block foreign nationals from using Fable and Mythos — including employees in the U.S. Because the APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. could not verify citizenship in real time, AnthropicAn AI safety company — creators of the Claude family of language models. shut both models off for everyone. The first time Washington used export controls on a deployed commercial frontier model, not just training chips.

The sentence that turned AI safety rhetoric into a global product blackout.

It showed governments could recall frontier models days after launch over jailbreak fears.