I’m still not buying that this was an actual USG order. The only people commenting are “experts” and there has been no official announcement from the USG.

This doesn’t smell like a NSL and there’s no process to selectively “export control” something like this.

Even so there’s a dozen mechanisms through courts to challenge this, and Anthropic isn’t taking any of them.

I think this is a made up crisis for PR with no actual legal requirements behind it.

> On Friday, the US government, reportedly citing national security concerns, issued an export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, inside or outside the United States. In response, Anthropic disabled both models “for all our customers to ensure compliance.”

David Sacks is on the record confirming it. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...