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America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down

For 18 days in June, two of America’s most capable AI models went dark worldwide, not for technical or business reasons, but because the U.S. government ordered it. On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department informed Anthropic that its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models could no longer be provided to any foreign person without a license, and the company concluded that compliance meant shutting the models down for everyone. Public access to Fable 5 was restored on June 30.The United States doesn’t have a

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Published: 23 July 2026
Source: War on the Rocks
Category: News
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 25 July 2026

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ethics.ai (23 July 2026), “America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down,” evidence record 13352, https://ethics.ai/record/13352 (originally published by War on the Rocks).

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