Tokens tied to two decentralized AI projects rose after the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to cut foreign-national access to its newest models late Friday, with backers casting the shutdown as proof of their censorship-resistant pitch.
Venice's VVV token climbed about 14% over 24 hours to $16.37 by Saturday afternoon, with a 24-hour high of $17.66, as trading volume jumped nearly 200% to roughly $130 million, according to CoinGecko data. Morpheus's MOR rose about 21% to $2.28 over the same period, but on just under $300,000 of volume.
The trigger appeared to be a federal order against a centralized rival. Frontier AI lab Anthropic said it received an export-control directive at 5:21 p.m. ET Friday to suspend access to its recently launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for any foreign national, inside or outside the U.S. To comply, it disabled both models for all customers, while leaving its other models running. A U.S. official confirmed to Reuters that the Commerce Department issued the directive.
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Anthropic launched Fable 5 on June 9 as the first publicly available model in its "Mythos-class" tier, shipping it with built-in safeguards because the underlying system is capable enough to find and exploit software flaws. The company said the government's concern centers on a method of bypassing those guardrails, called it a narrow issue that other models share, and described the order as a misunderstanding it is working to reverse.
