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 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.
