Because the lab’s own non-US staff can no longer touch the models, one analyst noted this is accidentally the first regulation on recursive self-improvement — a brake arrived by side effect rather than by design.
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A government suspends all foreign-national access to a frontier model
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The US issued an export-control directive suspending all foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on national security grounds, forcing Anthropic to disable both models for hundreds of millions of users while the lab disputed that a narrow jailbreak justified recalling them.
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