The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, better known as ENISA, is set to meet with Anthropic on June 19, 2026, in San Francisco. The timing is, to put it mildly, loaded.
Just one week earlier, on June 12, the US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to cut off access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign nationals. The rationale: national security concerns tied to diversion risks and vulnerabilities. Anthropic complied by disabling the models globally for all users, not just the targeted foreign nationals.
The first AI trade war salvo
The Bureau of Industry and Security is now applying trade regulations directly to commercial AI model access. Not chips. Not equipment. Software you access through an API.
The move represents one of the first instances where Washington has applied this kind of regulatory pressure to a commercial AI application rather than the underlying infrastructure.
