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It’s been a busy two weeks for Anthropic. Last Tuesday, the American AI company released its latest model, Fable 5, which it described as akin to the much-touted Claude Mythos Preview—but with safeguards that make it “safe for general use.”
By Friday, however, Anthropic said it had received a letter from the Department of Commerce instructing it to “suspend all access” to both Fable 5 and its newly updated Mythos model “by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.” Unable to reliably sort its users by nationality to guarantee that only Americans could use the model, Anthropic pulled the plug on both models for everyone.
Jonathan Gibson is a reporter at The Dispatch, currently based in Washington, D.C., and covering artificial intelligence. Before joining The Dispatch, he lived in London, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in politics and international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. When he’s not writing about AI and national security, he is probably teaching/playing table tennis, climbing, or reading. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
