Last Friday, Anthropic switched off its two most capable models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for most customers. It did so not by choice but after being arm-twisted by a US government export-control directive, citing national security issues, that bars access by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the US, including Anthropic's own foreign-national employees.
Because Anthropic couldn't cleanly separate US citizens from non-citizens, compliance meant disabling the models altogether. So, a frontier AI tool that was launched days earlier went dark within hours of a letter from the US commerce department. This also disrupts the Anthropic-led expanded Project Glasswing - uniting major tech firms like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple - to combat AI-driven cyber threats that India would have benefited from.
