The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to seek federal approval before allowing foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models — the most aggressive government intervention into any AI company to date. The directive, issued weeks after Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO valuing the company at $900 billion+, treats frontier AI models as controlled munitions. Trump later told Axios he doesn't view Anthropic as a national security threat, adding that CEO...