Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸

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…

One piece of advice we got during YC was to explain our company using verbs instead of nouns. Early on, I walked into a meeting and did the opposite: “We’re building a cloud platform for AI” No one knew that that meant, their eyes glazed over. Then I started saying this instead: “We containerize your code and run it on GPUs in the cloud so you don’t have to manage the infra yourself” That clicked way more. Our brains understand verbs because they’re more concrete. If you describe your company using nouns, you risk people not understanding you. And no one buys or invests in things they don’t understand.