Sean C

@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar @AnthropicAI Why would we not want the top AI model in the world? This seems incredibly short-sighted.

Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸

@jspujji It also means the masses have reached peak AI. All further AI advancement will only be available to the US government and whoever they deem worthy of access.

This is a huge moment. It changes the trajectory and might break the economics propping up the AI bubble: 1/ This slows everything down and hands China the gap. Feels like the first in a new series of frictions on this graph of uninterrupted progress. And the market is exposed: strip out AI and indices are down on the year, GDP growth is negative similar to Canada. 2/ Open source gets room to close the gap. It reprices frontier lab revenues that justified billions raised and are quietly propping up the economy. 3/ It reminds everyone revenue can be throttled by directive. That ~$15B/yr compute commitment is the AI premium baked into SpaceX's $2T. Not good.

@firstadopter Blocking Fable from foreign nationals is impossible and they know it. It only allows them to avoid court intervention. A full ban on all future AI advancement is the game our government is playing.

So anytime there’s a possible jailbreak, the U.S. government is going to ban access to a huge chunk of the smartest AI researchers in the world who are working here for us on green cards? Is our country this dumb? It’s like unilateral disarmament in the global AI race. "suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employee"

The most dystopian future is the one in which we know that the ultimate AI exists and the government won’t permit us to use it.

@ianmiles The US Gov't will ban them. Watch. The masses have reached peak AI as far as our government is concerned.

Kneejerk reaction over an already lobotomized (yet still very intelligent model). If the US keeps doing this, China’s open source models are going to take over.

That's unenforceable logistically and they know it. This means AI advancement for anybody but the US gov't and its crony corporations is officially done. The rest of us have reached peak AI as far the US government is concerned. They will also ban all AI models from China with similar advancement. Watch.

If it sticks, this means: - Americans will need proof of citizenship to access models on the level of Mythos. That means (potential) ID verification not just on Claude, but everywhere Fable is served downstream (Cursor, Devin, OpenRouter, etc.) A law firm that uses Harvey serving Fable 5 will get impacted just the same. - How is Anthropic supposed to serve Fable through API billing? They will somehow have to figure out a way to verify citizenship of the end user. API access will need to be drastically changed before access (even to American companies and citizens) can be restored. - Researchers at frontier labs themselves will no longer be able to use their own models Other things that could happen as a result of this: - OpenAI and GDM no longer have incentives to ship anything Mythos-caliber until this is resolved. If they release it, any company that can jailbreak the model can get export controls imposed on the model, and then they now have to deal with the same headaches. - Any non-US partners with Mythos access through Project Glasswing get cut off. Now that the US has exercised its kill switch once, expect other countries to operate with the assumption that frontier access can and will be revoked unilaterally.

@_The_Prophet__ The "foreign national" designation allows them to skirt court blocks and lawsuits, but they know foreign national access can't be regulated so it will be blocked for everybody. This is the US Gov't seizing control of all future AI advancement.

⚡️This is a monster signal. This is the moment frontier AI stops being treated like software and starts being treated like controlled strategic capability. The key phrase is not “customers.” The key phrase is “foreign national Anthropic employees.” That means the state is no longer only controlling chips, model weights, or overseas access. It is moving into cognition access by nationality. That is the real threshold. The U.S. government is saying the highest models are sensitive enough that even people physically inside the United States, working inside the company, may be barred from touching them if their nationality creates deemed-export risk. That is weapons-control logic. This is ITAR logic for intelligence. The corporate language about a “misunderstanding” is probably diplomacy. Companies say that when they need to preserve customer trust, employee morale, and regulatory room. But national security authorities do not force emergency suspension of top model access because someone made a minor paperwork mistake. Something about Fable 5 and Mythos 5 crossed the line: cyber capability, autonomous R&D acceleration, AI-improving-AI utility, bio/security planning, code exploitation, or some blend of all of it. The U.S. state just showed that Anthropic does not fully control Anthropic’s frontier layer. That is the phase change. Labs can brand themselves as public-benefit AI companies. They can talk about safety. They can sell enterprise plans. They can publish model cards. But once the models become national capability, the sovereign arrives. The state does not need to own the company to control the access surface. It only needs legal authority over export, security, procurement, and liability. This confirms the arc we’ve been tracking: Frontier AI becomes state-supervised strategic infrastructure. Public AI splits from strategic AI. Foreign access gets restricted. Labs become quasi-defense contractors. Model access becomes a national security perimeter. Enterprise customers learn that API access is not property. It is revocable permission inside a sovereign-controlled stack. The most important implication is organizational. If foreign national employees can be cut off from frontier systems, AI labs now have to reorganize internally around citizenship, clearance, compartmentalization, and controlled access. That breaks the old Silicon Valley assumption that global talent can freely collaborate around the frontier. The next AI lab structure looks less like Google in 2015 and more like a defense prime crossed with a classified research facility. For markets, the winners are the national champions with U.S.-aligned infrastructure, cleared customer channels, government relationships, compliance capacity, and domestic compute. The losers are open access, foreign-dependent AI wrappers, offshore model distributors, and any enterprise whose moat depends on unrestricted access to frontier APIs. For geopolitics, this is escalation. China will read this correctly. Allies will read this correctly. Every serious state will understand that frontier models are now part of national power. The AI race just moved from “who has the best chatbot” to “who controls cognition as a strategic asset.”

@arena This is really bad news. It means only the US Government and a handful of crony corporation will have access to anything more advanced that Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 in the future.

Update: We've removed Claude Fable 5 from Arena, following Anthropic's latest announcement and the U.S. government directive to suspend access. Claude Fable 5 is the most powerful model we’ve ever tested - ranking #1 across Agent, Text, and Code Arena, and setting a new breakthrough for frontier AI performance. We look forward to restoring access and resuming community testing when possible.

This means all further AI advancement is officially dead now except to the US Government and its crony giant corporations. I expected this crap out of the Democrats @realDonaldTrump @SecWar - but I guess it was inevitable that this kind of power would concentrate only into the hands of a few and screw the rest of humanity.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

You’re not taxing wealth, you’re taxing success. Taking money from people who earned it and giving it to people who didn’t is a great way to make sure there are no rich people to tax, and yes, it’s literally theft. The founding fathers would be stacking bodies if they saw what the government they created has become.

Wealth is derived from production. If nobody produces, the federal government has no money to "invest". Government and its costs are necessary - but government should be as limited in power and cost as possible in order for a society to actually have wealth and thrive. That's the part Democrats do not understand.

This the basic difference. Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous. Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.

Elon responded to Warren calling him a “freeloader" in 2021: “I'm actually paying the most tax that any individual in history has ever paid this year. Ever." "And she doesn't pay taxes basically at all. Her salary is paid for by the taxpayer, like me. If you could die by irony, she would be dead."

@tufpraise Despite that - Germany and Japan both negotiated a surrender.

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

@RoKhanna @BernieSanders You are economically STUPID. He would have to sell his stocks and assets to pay your STUPID tax - which would devalue his worth, the worth of his company which would decrease their ability to pay for jobs and products and services - just to satisfy your STUPID envy and greed.

Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. @BernieSanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him. In one year, it could fund: - free public college & trade school -$10/day childcare - Special-needs education nationwide Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.

He would have to sell a huge chunk of his stocks to get the cash which would devalue the stock, others would have to sell to do the same. That would hurt the company, reduce jobs and spending and make a lot of people poorer. But why am I trying to explain this to economically illiterate Democrats who are know MOTHING except envy and greed.

Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American. And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars! You don't think that's worth it?

@DNIGabbard Burn these criminals to ground Tulsi.

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/news…

@SenSanders Bernie and his friends

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500. If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

@GavinNewsom Says the rich kid. Your hypocrisy is sickening.

Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE. When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted. The system is rigged.

@GaryAdams713 Your whining at me is excluded of course

@Garron217 Pray about it and quit whining, Sean. Seriously. Do something more than WHINE. Please.