American frontier models are a political dependency now (opens in new tab)

Claude Fable 5 was in public hands for about three days before Anthropic took it back. Nothing was wrong with the model. The block came from a US demand Anthropic couldn’t meet: keep non-US nationals away from it, including the ones living in America. Rather than build that wall, the company pulled the model outright. A week later OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 to a short list of partners it had cleared with the government first, with the usual line about wider access in ‘the coming weeks’.