Donald Trump’s blocking of Anthropic is capricious and chaotic

Illustration: Timo Lenzen Jun 14th 2026|4 min readIN BANNING foreigners from using Mythos 5 and Fable 5, Anthropic’s most powerful models, America’s government may simply have been seeking to punish the firm by the readiest means available. But whatever its intentions, it has demonstrated the difficulty of curbing access to potent technology.This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “A bouncer gone beserk”From the June 20th 2026 editionDiscover stories from this section and more in the list of contents⇒Explore the edition