The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models
THE SO WHAT
Rapid reversal on Mythos and Fable export controls shows frontier model access is now entangled with day-to-day politics, not just long-horizon regulation. Multinational teams should plan for model whiplash—keep alternative providers and on-prem options in your back pocket.
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