Anthropic pulls Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 after Trump admin order
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A US order forcing Anthropic to pull its top models underscores that frontier AI is now treated as strategic infrastructure, not just software. If you depend on any single vendor’s highest-tier models, add “sudden policy-driven shutdown” to your risk register and architect for substitution.
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