Claude’s Most Powerful Model Was Paused by the U.S. Government. Chinese Users Are Not Surprised.
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were suspended shortly after its confidential IPO filing and model launch, following a U.S. export control directive. This article looks at Anthropic’s safety narrative, the long-running restrictions felt by Chinese users, and why advanced AI is starting to look less like software and more like a controlled supply chain.