CHOI(@arrakis_ai):Ironically, just days after Dario Amodei argued in his essay Policy on the AI Exponential that the U.S. government should have the legal authority to halt or roll back frontier AI models that fail safety evaluations, Anthropic became one of the first companies to find itself on the receiving end of exactly that kind of intervention. In a sense, the very switch he proposed was flipped on his own company almost immediately.

2026.06.13 01:05

Ironically, just days after Dario Amodei argued in his essay Policy on the AI Exponential that the U.S. government should have the legal authority to halt or roll back frontier AI models that fail safety evaluations, Anthropic became one of the first companies to find itself on the receiving end of exactly that kind of intervention. In a sense, the very switch he proposed was flipped on his own company almost immediately.

Anthropic@AnthropicAI

2026.06.13 00:50

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: