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⚡️ Anthropic shipped Fable 5, and 3 days later the US government switched it off A tangled but telling story from the AI world this past month. The lead character is Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot. Here's how it played out. 🧠 A call to slow the whole industry down (June 4) Anthropic, one of the biggest AI labs around, urged the industry to slow or temporarily halt work on the most powerful models. The argument: AI is closing in on "recursive self-improvement," the point where a model starts improving itself without human input. We're not there yet, they say, but it could arrive sooner than society is ready for. 🚀 The most powerful model yet (June 9) Five days after calling for a pause, the company released Fable 5, by its own account the strongest model it has ever put in public hands. Alongside it came Mythos 5: the same model with far heavier cybersecurity muscle, kept to a narrow circle. To stop that power from being abused, Fable 5 shipped with built-in safeguards. 🛑 The US government steps in (June 12) Three days later, Washington intervened. The Commerce Department, citing national security, issued an export directive barring access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, inside or outside the country, including Anthropic's own non-citizen staff. You can't verify citizenship on the fly, so Anthropic pulled both models for everyone. By the end of June, access still hadn't come back. 🤨 A bit of skepticism This smells like more than safety. Anthropic is heading for a stock listing valued near a trillion dollars, and critics point out that if you spend months calling your product practically a weapon, sooner or later a government takes you at your word. How much is genuine worry and how much is PR and rivalry, you can decide for yourself. Stay protected, 🌍 Planet VPN #AI #Anthropic #privacy #cybersecurity #vpn