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Anthropic:
Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the US government issued an export control order, citing national security concerns  —  The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 …
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The Information:
Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Mythos 5, setting in motion new export restrictions  —  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among the tech leaders who raised concerns to senior Trump administration officials this week about security risks …
David Sacks / @davidsacks:
David Sacks says Dario Amodei refused to “fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model” after “a highly credible trusted partner” reported a Fable jailbreak  —  I've had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Luta Security CEO says US government restrictions on Mythos follow a jailbreak report by Amazon researchers and calls the restrictions a “complete overreaction”  —  The Trump administration is banning foreign governments, companies and individuals from using Anthropic's …
Ananya Palyekar / Reuters:
Anthropic says it believes the US government's export control order for Mythos 5 and Fable 5 is a “misunderstanding” and that it is working to restore access  —  Anthropic said on Friday it has been ordered by the U.S. government to suspend access for all foreign nationals …
New York Times:
US barring foreign nationals, including Anthropic staffers in the US, from using Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marks a new phase in the US trying to control Anthropic  —  The company said on Friday night that the federal government had ordered limits on its Mythos and Fable 5 A.I. systems, citing national security concerns.
Nathan Rennolds / Associated Press:
European political figures say Anthropic disabling access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is a “wake-up call” about the risks of depending on the US for AI tech  —  Anthropic said it believed the US government had become aware of a potential means of jailbreaking Fable 5.
Axios:
Source: the US Commerce Department decided to block foreign persons from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a company claimed it was able to jailbreak Mythos  —  The Trump administration is blocking foreign governments, companies and individuals from accessing Anthropic's most advanced AI models.
Leo Schwartz / The Information:
Source: the White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions to other AI companies  —  The White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions on Anthropic's advanced models to other AI companies, an official close to the U.S. government said Saturday.
More: Axios and Sky News
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth ~$130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states  —  The authors found that data center opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 projects nationwide from January through March.
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% lower reasoning token usage compared to K2.6, available under a modified MIT license  —  Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update to its K2 coding model family, claiming leaner reasoning and double-digit performance gains.
Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI was subpoenaed on Friday by a coalition of state AGs for documents covering a wide range of its activities and impact on users  —  Company subpoenaed for documents covering wide range of its activities and impact on users  —  A coalition of state attorneys general has opened …

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