Dispatches of a Trust Architect: When Intelligence Becomes a Permission (opens in new tab)

After three decades of building internet infrastructure, I’ve learned that the most dangerous moment isn’t when a system fails, it’s when it succeeds and then inverts its purpose. This week confirmed that again. Anthropic abruptly disabled its frontier models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer, to comply with a U.S. government national-security order. The immediate disruption was minor: the models were only days old, and Anthropic’s other models still run. What matters is what it proved:...