The Loop  ·  Issue 025

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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#National Security

  1. · News

    Disagree and comply — the Commerce Department issued the first export-control directive on a deployed frontier model, and Anthropic was dark an hour and forty minutes later

    At 5:21pm Eastern on June 12, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national. The lab complied within an hour and forty minutes. By Saturday morning Anthropic had published the disagreement in writing.

    Jun 13, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor