American Government Takes Down Claude Fable (opens in new tab)

No good policy gets announced shortly after 5pm eastern on a Friday. Here we go again. The Once And Future Fable The United States Department of Commerce, , apparently identified by Amazon, has classified Fable 5 and Mythos 5 as being subject to US export controls. That explicitly means cutting off access to all ‘foreign nationals,’ even within the United States, even if they are Anthropic employees. Given Anthropic has no means to verify citizenship at this time, that meant complete shutdown...