Why the moral of Anthropic's fable reads like an unhappy ending for the AI sector far beyond the US

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Last week Anthropic unleashed Claude Fable 5 on the world; 48 hours later the US Government cut the world outside America off from the same tech, citing national security concerns - and a wake-up call rang out all around the globe.

It’s the latest turn in the ever-souring relationship between Trump 2.0 and the US champion that until earlier this year was lauded as the only AI model supplier secure enough for use in the highest levels of the Pentagon, but overnight was deemed a pariah run by "left-wing nutjobs" for refusing to back down on two ethical red lines in its contract Ts & Cs.

That led to President Donald Trump decreeing that Anthropic was not to be used in any US public sector work and warning that others who partnered with the firm were also to be excluded. Meanwhile all US Government agencies had six months to...

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