They Launched the Most Powerful AI Yet. It Lasted Three Days.

On 12 June the US government issued an export-control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend its two newest frontier models for every foreign national on earth. Anthropic complied within hours and pulled them for everyone, US users included, because it couldn't separate foreign nationals from the rest fast enough. The models had launched three days earlier. This wasn't a product decision, it was an export order, the same legal machinery used for weapons and enriched uranium pointed at a reasoni...