Dario Got Exactly What He Asked For
On the 10th of June, Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that governments should have the legal power to block dangerous AI deployments. Two days later, on the 12th at 5:21pm Eastern, the US Commerce Department used that exact power on him. It ordered Anthropic to cut off all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, anywhere in the world, citing national security. There was no way to comply selectively, so Anthropic pulled both models for everyone, paying customers included.