Anthropic suspends new AI models after government directive

The U.S. government instructed Anthropic to prevent any foreign national from accessing the AI company’s latest and most powerful models Friday evening, according to the AI giant

The U.S. government instructed Anthropic to prevent any foreign national from accessing the AI company’s latest and most powerful models Friday evening, according to the AI giant.

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Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, said it had to disable access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers — not just foreign nationals — to comply with the directive.

“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 company wrote in a statement posted online late Friday evening.