The Anthropic Ban Just Eased — For Americans. Europe Is Still Locked Out.
On Friday, June 26, the US government partially reversed the export control directive that took Anthropic’s most powerful models offline two weeks ago. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick authorised the release of Claude Mythos 5 to roughly 100 named US institutions — major companies and government agencies on an “Annex A” list — and their foreign-national employees. Fable 5, the public version, remains restricted. The resolution confirms what gafam.ai has tracked for three weeks: a new American regime now governs who may access frontier AI. European users are not on the list. gafam.ai’s European analysis.