<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 6:04 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif">> </font></i></span><i><font face="georgia, serif">Is this a real fear of dangerous AI? Or just a marketing gimmick?</font></i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Given the fact that<span class="gmail_default" style=""> in just a few days</span> Mythos<span class="gmail_default" style=""> was able to discover thousands of</span> previously unknown<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>zero-day vulnerabilities<span class="gmail_default" style=""> to our critical software infrastructure, some of which have existed for decades, and given the fact that it seems to know a great deal about germ warfare, it sure sounds like more than a marketing gimmick to me. And if it is a marketing gimmick it isn't working because it's making thousands of Anthropic's customers who have not been given full access to Mythos furious. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""> John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos AI models after U.S. government<br>
bars it from giving foreigners access<br>
By Jeremy Kahn June 13, 2026<br>
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<<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/06/13/anthropic-disables-fable-mythos-export-controls-national-security-threat/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fortune.com/2026/06/13/anthropic-disables-fable-mythos-export-controls-national-security-threat/</a>><br>
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Anthropic was forced to disable all access to its newest AI models,<br>
Fable 5 and Mythos 5, late on Friday after the U.S. Commerce<br>
Department used national security export controls to bar the company<br>
from distributing the models to any foreign national.<br>
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The directive includes not just people located outside the U.S., but<br>
also any foreign national in the U.S., including Anthropic’s own<br>
non-citizen employees.<br>
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Given the scope of the directive, Anthropic argued it had no choice<br>
but to disable the models for all users. It clarified that access to<br>
its less powerful Claude models, including its latest Claude Opus 4.8<br>
model, was not affected.<br>
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Is this a real fear of dangerous AI? Or just a marketing gimmick?<br>
BillK<br><br>
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