One **possible** scenario: How a narrow security concern became a worldwide shutdown of Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (June 12–13, 2026).1. The trigger. The US government believes it found a jailbreak in Fable 5 — asking the model to read a codebase and find or fix flaws, yielding cyber uplift. Citing "national security authorities," it issued an export-control directive to Anthropic at 5:21pm ET on June 12.2. How an export control reaches users inside the US (this is the likely mechanism — the actual directive is non-public). Model weights are treated as controlled "technology" (a 4E091-type control). Under the "deemed export" doctrine (EAR sections 734.13 and 734.15), giving a foreign national access counts as an export to their home country, even if they never leave the US. The directive's scope: suspend all access by any foreign national, inside or outside the US, including foreign-national employees.3. Compliance and result. Anthropic says complying with the foreign-national restriction re...
One **possible** scenario: How a narrow security concern became a worldwide shutdown of Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (June 12–13...
