by Raphael Dudler | Jun 19, 2026 | gafam watch
One week ago, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from accessing Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Seven days later, the models are still down. High-level talks with the White House continue without public resolution. A Polymarket prediction market has traded over $770,000 on whether access will be restored. AWS has revoked Bedrock access. And European users — including Anthropic’s own non-American employees — remain locked out of the most capable AI model the company has ever built. The silence is the story. gafam.ai’s European analysis.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 19, 2026 | europe & ai
The 52nd G7 Summit closed today at Évian-les-Bains after three days of negotiations under French presidency. Nine declarations were adopted. A dedicated working lunch on “Ensuring the safe, rapid and effective deployment of artificial intelligence” brought G7 leaders together with business executives. President Macron held the closing press conference. President Trump defended his Iran deal as allies pressed for details. gafam.ai examines what the Évian outcomes actually mean for European AI policy — and what they conspicuously omit.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 17, 2026 | europe & ai
The G7 Summit concludes today in Évian-les-Bains. France hosted three AI CEOs in the same room for the first time in history. The declaration on protecting minors online is real and binding. The transatlantic AI sovereignty conversation produced voluntary commitments and rhetoric. Both Anthropic and OpenAI confidentially filed S-1 IPO documents during the summit week. gafam.ai’s honest assessment of what Europe actually achieved — and what it once again left on the table.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 16, 2026 | gafam watch
The Wall Street Journal, The Information and Reuters have confirmed it: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy personally contacted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on June 12 to flag security findings about Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Fable 5. Hours later, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick issued the export control directive that took Fable 5 offline worldwide. Amazon is Anthropic’s largest investor, a board member and the primary cloud host of Anthropic’s models. It is also the company that just triggered the regulatory action that crippled its own portfolio company. The most consequential conflict of interest in the AI era — and nobody is calling it that. Until now.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 15, 2026 | gafam watch
From today through Wednesday, the G7 Summit in France hosts an unprecedented event: Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind appear together before the leaders of the world’s largest democracies — for the first time in history. Three rival frontier AI lab CEOs. Seven world leaders. Three days. And simultaneously: Anthropic’s senior staff is in Washington trying to reverse the US export ban that locked European users out of Claude Fable 5 last Friday. gafam.ai’s European analysis of the diplomatic moment that defines AI governance for the rest of the decade.
