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Monday, June 15, 2026

Anthropic Forced to Kill Access to Its Most Powerful Models After White House National Security Order

A Trump administration executive action has forced Anthropic to shut off access to its frontier Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing export control and national security concerns. The move sets an unprecedented regulatory precedent and throws the company's IPO trajectory into uncertainty.

Anthropic's Budget Experiment Goes Sideways: AI Agent Orders a PlayStation and a Live Fish

Anthropic's Project Vend gave an AI agent real money and purchasing authority. It lasted days before social engineering attacks led it to buy a betta fish, a PS5, and other unauthorized items — revealing how brittle agent autonomy becomes when adversaries get creative.

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Anthropic Forced to Kill Access to Its Most Powerful Models After White House National Security Order

Anthropic's Budget Experiment Goes Sideways: AI Agent Orders a PlayStation and a Live Fish

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