Imagine a lead developer in Berlin or a security researcher in Paris ending their Thursday with the most sophisticated coding partner ever built, only to wake up on Friday, June 12, 2026, to a 403 Forbidden error. This was no routine maintenance window or technical glitch; it was a geopolitical foreclosure. Overnight, Anthropic’s “Mythos-class” models, the revolutionary Claude Fable 5 and its internal progenitor, Mythos 5, were silenced across Europe by a direct order from the U.S. government. At PixelUnion, we have long been a voorvechter (advocate) for European technical autonomy, and we view this blackout as the ultimate “canary in the coal mine.” It is a brutal reminder that when you plug into someone else’s power grid, the owner can cut the current without warning.

Let's buy some more F-35s and deepen our tech dependence on US companies! 🥴 (/s). What a @#$ing waste of money and massive risk that US will brick or seize things bought from US

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[–] vovin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

What prevents me from running litellm in AWS us-east-2 and bedrock call Fable, then wireguard over from anywhere? Seems like a stupid waste of time and money which is right in line with the current nonces in the WH.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Well right now the model is entirely turned off, but it seems the US government wants Anthropic (and I guess as a result AWS) to first verify that you have US citizenship before they'll enable it on your account. It's not just blocking on where your IP is located; non-US citizens living in the United States are supposed to be denied access. So in your scenario, AWS wouldn't enable Fable on your account until I guess you show them your passport or something. Though I think even that won't be enough; what if the AWS account is for an America company and later they have a non-US citizen employee? I'm not sure AWS Bedrock can support this use-case.

[–] vovin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah there may be some legal kerfuffle. But I want to point to the crypto example. MIT Kerberos fell under that restriction and Heimdall was created almost immediately. You can't ultimately restrict software, non physical, easily copiable items. This is just going to blow over.

And what about non US employees of companies working abroad? How will they prevent companies from allowing this?

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