Washington Just Locked Europeans Out of Its Best AI. By Decree.
Late Friday June 12, 2026, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a letter ordering the company to block all foreign nationals — including European users, including Anthropic’s own non-American employees — from accessing Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic chose to disable both models entirely rather than implement selective discrimination. The European AI dependency that gafam.ai has warned about for weeks is no longer theoretical. It just became reality. By executive decree. Without explanation. gafam.ai’s European analysis of the moment American AI sovereignty became European AI vulnerability.