tl;dr: The US government issued an export control directive forcing Anthropic to disable access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all users, citing a jailbreak vulnerability that Anthropic claims is minor and replicable in other publicly available models. The author argues this sets a troubling precedent—potentially the first of governments restricting public access to frontier LLMs—while noting the suspicious Friday-evening timing and the Trump administration's known hostility toward Anthropic amid competitors' close ties to the White House.