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: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

Last night’s brutal attack in Belfast, and the arrest of a Sudanese migrant on suspicion of attempted murder, has shocked the nation. But while politicians express "sickness" at the violence, they refuse to address the systemic issue: the breakdown of our asylum system regarding arrivals from highly unstable regions. North East African nations such as Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti rank among the most corrupt and dangerous places on Earth. This isn’t the Africa you saw in The Lion King — many of these nations struggle with child marriage, extremely low living standards, weak institutions, poor literacy rates, ongoing conflict and some of the highest levels of corruption in the world. The shocking reality is that a large proportion of people arriving from countries like these are ultimately allowed to remain in Britain through the asylum system. An estimated 90-95% get granted visas, according to Home Office Immigration Statistics (Year Ending December 2025) South Sudan is one of the poorest countries on Earth, with much of its population still dependent on subsistence agriculture and cattle herding. You cannot take people from environments shaped by decades of war, instability and poverty and simply assume immediate assimilation into British culture. That expectation is unrealistic. Rwanda, particularly Kigali, was a far more sensible destination. Rwanda has spent decades improving education, public order and governance, and the contrast with many of its regional neighbours is obvious. The 2024 Conservative Rwanda policy may have been controversial, but at least it attempted to address a system that is clearly under strain. Until asylum policy is fundamentally reformed — including the wider use of safe third countries and stricter criteria for protection claims — Britain will continue to face the same problems, the same debates and the same headlines. From Transparency International’s CPI 2025 report: “Sub-Saharan Africa faces the highest corruption levels globally… The lowest scorers include Sudan (13), Eritrea (13), Somalia (9) and South Sudan (9).” The Global Peace Index likewise ranks several of these countries among the least peaceful nations on Earth due to conflict, militarisation and failures in public safety. The question is simple: how many more warnings do policymakers need before they accept that the current asylum system is not working as intended? Sources; 📰 The Belfast Incident: PSNI official updates / Reuters / AP News 📊 Global Indexes: Transparency International CPI & Vision of Humanity Global Peace Index @ShabanaMahmood @Keir_Starmer @Nigel_Farage @ZiaYusufUK @RupertLowe10 @GRobinsonDUP @ukhomeoffice @GBNEWS @PatrickChristys @Alexarmstrong

The German government said it agreed with France to halt a €100 billion ($115 billion) joint fighter-jet project after persistent disputes and delays since it began nearly a decade ago bloomberg.com/news/articles/…