This is what centralized AI looks like when a government decides to pull the plug.
A directive three days after one of the biggest model launches in history, and every single customer worldwide loses access immediately - not because of anything they did wrong, but because a centralized cloud service has one point of control that any government can reach with a single order.
IDLE Protocol is different from every other decentralized compute network in one critical way. IDLE doesn't just distribute servers across data centers - it routes inference directly to consumer devices. Laptops, desktop PCs, and personal GPU rigs running open-weight models locally. The compute is in people's hands, not in a facility that can be raided, regulated, or shut down.
Every IDLE node is an independent compute unit. No central server receives the government order because there is no central server. Jobs route peer-to-peer across the network, powered by consumer hardware that already exists in billions of homes and on millions of desks worldwide. Payouts settle on Solana automatically. The network has no kill switch because it has no center.
Today made the case for IDLE Protocol better than anything we could have written ourselves.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement:
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