The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from advanced AI models. This action disabled Anthropic's models, citing national security concerns and impacting users globally. Restrictions were lifted after Anthropic enhanced safety guardrails, which reduced model intelligence and performance. The incident questions the government's role as an AI gatekeeper and the legality of its actions.

A Commerce Department order requiring Anthropic to wall off its most advanced AI models from foreign nationals could be the government’s attempt to keep the best AI technology for…

The U.S. ordered Anthropic to prevent all foreign nationals from using the artificial intelligence company's two most advanced large language models.