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The US government's restrictions on Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models have intensified calls in the UK and other countries to reduce their reliance on US tech companies, with significant cyber implications.
July 15, 2026
The US government's restrictions on frontier AI models appear to have had unintended consequences across the pond.
Last month, Anthropic revealed that the Trump administration issued an export control order banning foreign nationals from accessing the AI company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The ban, which was widely criticized by the cybersecurity community, forced Anthropic to indefinitely suspend access to the models while it tried to make sense of the government's national security concerns (details about an alleged jailbreaking flaw were not disclosed, and the US Department of Commerce never commented publicly on the ban).
