Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 • Hacker News Board

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by gmerc » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

Looks like a back door attempt to force KYC (foreign nationals, lol) to prepare for more discrimination in the digital space with a side effect to benefit Peter Thiels ventures and shovel more data into Palantir for use in the upcoming midterm push.

Digital yellow star by exclusion from digital life for foreigners.

Remember when tech companies would go to court to vigorously defend against infringement of their and their customers rights? Turns out that’s just a feature of democracy, once you have autocrats it’s all compliance.

Anthropic just baited themselves with their scaremongering to be the attack vector here.

It a stellar move by the way - since every tech company in an exceptionally fast growing field will comply or miss out sales, you effectively force KYC without legislative process onto much of digital because that’s the only way to comply.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by holistio » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

Fellow Europeans: we must build.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by swingboy » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

Same model that costs $12 in tokens to finally add “overflow-x: hidden;” to an element, by the way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498573

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by yogthos » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

A fantastic move to ensure the rest of the world keeps using Chinese models.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by henry2023 » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

> If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.

But what about the pelicans ?

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by blackqueeriroh » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:27 AM UTC

gpm wrote: post #90

> 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 There's no way they have the authority to actually order this and not just request this right? If crypto is speech... LLMs definitely are...

Doesn’t really matter - the government is given wide latitude by the judiciary in matters of national security. I also expect Anthropic will fight this in court if it lasts very long.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by aussieguy1234 » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:27 AM UTC

While I'm always skeptical of the claims of AI companies and have been skeptical of Anthropics claims about the dangers of their Mythos model, the fact that the US government is taking this seriously enough to send this type of order is strong evidence in their favor.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by siliconc0w » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:28 AM UTC

I wonder if this is specific to the animus toward anthropic or if this is the new industry wide level cap. Seems like a pretty big problem for the AI market in general, a lot this investment is predicated on better and better models.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by tamimio » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:28 AM UTC

So scare tactics on losing jobs and ending all white collar ones is fine and ok and advertised everywhere, but scare tactics about software vulnerabilities is not and forbidden, got it!

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by analogpixel » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:28 AM UTC

So the white house likes to do a lot of things they don't actually have authority to do, so the next question is if they don't have the authority to do this, can Anthropic sue for damages for not only tokens people were not able to spend, but also market share lost to the setback?