Legion LegalTech sues US over Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown
Legion LegalTech says the export directive that shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide has done “immediate, irreparable, and existential” harm to its business.
US legal-technology company has sued the federal government over the directive that, two weeks ago, forced Anthropic to switch off its two most capable AI models for everyone on Earth.
Legion LegalTech Corp filed its complaint on Tuesday in federal court in Washington, DC, asking a judge to vacate the order and signalling that it will seek an injunction to stop the administration from enforcing it.
The order at the heart of the case came from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security on June 12.
Citing national security, it required Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for “any foreign national,” inside or outside the United States, including the company’s own foreign-national staff.
Because Anthropic could not reliably check nationality in real...
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