Tech’s biggest story today is how quickly AI has become a matter of state power. Anthropic abruptly took its flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline after a U.S. export-control directive barred access by foreign nationals worldwide, including some of the company’s own employ...
Tech’s biggest story today is how quickly AI has become a matter of state power. Anthropic abruptly took its flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline after a U.S. export-control directive barred access by foreign nationals worldwide, including some of the company’s own employees, in a move reportedly tied to national security fears over a possible jailbreak. The company says the evidence was thin and the shutdown temporary, but the episode underscores how frontier AI is now being governed like sensitive infrastructure. OpenAI, meanwhile, is facing pressure from another direction: a sweeping subpoena from a coalition of state attorneys general seeking records on consumer data, vulnerable users, advertising, and model behavior. And as regulators tightened their grip on AI, Meta offered a reminder of the fragility of digital life more broadly, with outages hitting Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger before uneven recovery began.
Top Tech stories
- Anthropic disables Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after U.S. order restricting foreign access (37 sources)
- OpenAI Faces Sweeping Subpoena by Coalition of U.S. State Attorneys General (12 sources)
- US orders Anthropic to suspend foreign access to its latest frontier AI models (9 sources)
- Anthropic disables access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following U.S. government directive (6 sources)
- Meta experiences broad outage affecting Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger (6 sources)
- UK police officer investigated for alleged AI use to create evidential material (4 sources)
- Mumbai startup’s founder hires 64-year-old intern, video goes viral (3 sources)
- Tommy Robinson set to debate suspicion of Islam at Oxford Union despite outcry (3 sources)
Paige Newsom
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