Anthropic has suspended access to its newly launched Claude Fable 5 and the more advanced Mythos 5 model after receiving an export control directive from the US government. The move comes only days after Fable 5 was introduced, making the restriction especially significant for customers, researchers, developers, and companies that were expecting to use the latest model. According to Anthropic, the directive requires the company to block access to both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, regardless of where they are physically located.

It's not every day that a relatively unknown player from China crashes the party hosted by tech titans like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic—but that's exactly what DeepSeek has done. Since late 2022, we've seen a few AI assistants dominate the scene—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—you know the names. These tools keep getting smarter, thanks to massive cash injections (think billions), fancy data centers, and cutting-edge chips.