AI Industry & Drama — June 16, 2026

This Tuesday morning, the U.S. government has ordered Anthropic to suspend global access to its new AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. Both The Standard (HK) and CUToday confirm this directive came from U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who fears the models could be misused by military intelligence in countries like China and Russia. NBC News and 24/7 Wall St. report that Anthropic took its systems offline globally by June 12th, just days after Fable 5's l