Trump Admin Slaps Export Controls on Anthropic After Heated Calls
Anthropic forced to yank its new Fable AI model days after launch following tense standoff with Trump administration officials.
Anthropic's latest AI model, Fable, is already dead on arrival. The Trump administration hit the company with export controls that forced it to pull the model just days after its public release.
The decision came after multiple tense phone calls between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and administration officials. The conversations apparently did not go well.
The export controls effectively killed Fable's public availability almost immediately after launch. That's a brutal blow for Anthropic, which had just shipped the model to users.
Details on exactly what triggered the crackdown remain thin. But the rapid sequence — launch, heated calls, export controls, model pulled — paints a picture of a fast-moving confrontation between one of the leading AI companies and the federal government.
Anthropic now joins a growing list of AI firms navigating increasingly aggressive government oversight of frontier models.