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Bloomberg Technology breaks a major AI policy story: on the evening of June 13, 2026, the US Commerce Department issued a directive to Anthropic ordering the company to block all foreign nationals — including those residing inside the United States — from accessing its two most advanced models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic concluded the restriction was operationally unworkable and pulled both models from the market entirely rather than attempt to enforce nationality-based access controls. A US official subsequently confirmed that Anthropic executives are meeting with the Commerce Department to discuss potential remediation steps.
The government’s stated rationale centers on a jailbreak vulnerability in the models’ guardrails — a flaw officials argue could be exploited in ways that pose national security risks. Anthropic has disputed this characterization, saying there is no universal jailbreak and that the government is either overstating or misunderstanding the nature of the risk. Bloomberg’s AI editor Seth notes the irony that CEO Dario Amodei had publicly argued just two days before the directive that governments should have the authority to ban models posing serious risks — a position the Trump administration has now acted on in a way Anthropic itself calls misguided.
The segment also places the move in geopolitical context, noting that AI sovereignty is on the G7 agenda at a Geneva summit and that European leaders are watching closely given their concerns about over-reliance on US technology that could be restricted. The episode additionally covers NVIDIA’s planned $20 billion corporate bond raise — its first since 2021 — and SpaceX’s strong post-IPO trading performance.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published June 15, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
