I can’t believe I am writing this. The Commerce department just ordered an export control directive (quoting Anthropic) “to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5” by foreign nationals — even their own employees.
Anthropic’s reply as posted on X (fuller link here )
Dean W. Ball wrote
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Dean W. Ball@deanwball
I can’t tell if this is lawfare against Anthropic in particular or extreme national-security hawkery. Regardless, it is simply cartoonish.
12:42 AM · Jun 13, 2026 · 8.46K Views
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](https://x.com/deanwball/status/2065595735320453298?s=61)
My own take, concurring and elaborating:
I have my reservations about generative AI, but this is not the way.
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