AI Regulation

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Two weeks ago, I was mid-project on a client deliverable when the model I was using vanished. Not a temporary outage — the government pulled it for review. The automation I’d built around that specific model stopped working. The client deadline didn’t care about regulatory politics. ...

So, did Anthropic talk its way into an AI export ban? On June 12, 2026, the U.S. Commerce Department gave Anthropic roughly 90 minutes to pull two of its newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, offline worldwide. The trigger: a jailbreak found by Amazon researchers that could coax Mythos into revealing restricted cybersecurity vulnerability information, reported straight to the White House by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. It was the first time the government used national security export controls to force an AI company to shut down its own products globally. ...