Who decides who gets to use a piece of software?
The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washington usually stops returning calls and the news cycle goes slack for the weekend. It came from the Commerce Department, ran to a few paragraphs, and did something no piece of American paper had ever quite done before.
By the time the East Coast had finished dinner, two of the most capable artificial-intelligence models on the planet had gone dark. Not throttled, not patched, not quietly degraded. Off. A researcher in Berlin who had been mid-sentence with the thing found it gone. So did a financial analyst in Singapore, a software team in Bangalore, and, in a detail that would be funny if it were not the whole point, a number of Anthropic’s own engineers, the ones who happen to hold the wrong passport.
The directive told Anthropic to deny access to Fable...
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