US authorities have ordered Anthropic to cut off access to its newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all foreign nationals, including the company’s own non-citizen staff inside and outside America. The directive cites national security and applies to the systems released just days earlier.
Former Zoho chief Sridhar Vembu called the move significant, noting that technology now drives global influence. In a social media post he described it as evidence that technology functions as the ultimate weapon and that national sovereignty increasingly depends on technological strength. He added that globalization has ended and India must pursue independent development, urging greater use of smaller open-source models from India and China that can be tailored locally. With modest effort, he said, such systems can be made effective, and there is little reason to pay firms unwilling to serve certain customers.
Online reactions included comparisons to major historical events and suggestions that commercial or political motives played a role. Some users also expressed fears that governments might extend controls to other AI tools.
Anthropic stated that its testers found no broad way to bypass safety features and argued that withdrawing models over narrow issues would stop nearly all new releases across the sector.
