Two days ago a company shipped the most powerful AI model ever released to the public. Friday night, the United States government ordered it shut off. Worldwide. Every user, every country, gone by morning. The trigger was not an attack. A rival showed the government a way around one of the safety locks. That was enough. The company is Anthropic. The models are Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the most capable systems it has ever built, live for barely 72 hours. At 5:21 on Friday evening, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent the CEO a letter placing both under export controls, citing national security. The order, on its face, only barred foreign nationals. But Anthropic cannot separate foreign users from everyone else in real time, so to comply it had to pull the plug on all of them. The most advanced AI on earth went dark for the entire planet because of a sentence in a letter. Here is the trigger, and it is the part that should stop you. By Anthropic’s account, the government reviewed a single demonstration in which the model was asked to read a codebase and fix its flaws, and it surfaced a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. That is the capability at issue. Finding bugs in code. The same kind of capability that, two weeks ago, a researcher used to catch a four-year-old hole in Zcash before it could be drained. The thing that makes the model a world-class defender is the exact thing that got it called a national security risk. And Anthropic’s rebuttal lands clean. It says the identical task runs on OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, which sits under no such control at all, and that defenders already use this technique every day. One company’s model is pulled worldwide. A rival’s model, doing the same thing, stays online. National security is the reason given. Competitive accident is the result delivered. This did not come from nowhere. The same administration spent the spring trying to brand Anthropic a supply chain risk after the company refused to let its models be used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. A judge blocked that. The two sides had only just begun to thaw. Anthropic had filed to go public at a $965 billion valuation. On June 2 the President signed an order giving the government early access to frontier models. Then a rival demonstrated a jailbreak, and the most powerful model in the world was switched off three days after launch. Step back and the pattern is the one that keeps repeating. A zero-knowledge proof hid a four-year flaw. A clean audit hid a redemption gate. A safety wall the company built to look responsible became the precise lever the state used to flip the switch. The safest lab in AI built a model too powerful to fully release, warned the world it was dangerous, filed to go public at $965 billion, and got it shut down by its own government over a bug-finding trick a competitor can run untouched. Anthropic calls it a misunderstanding and says it is working to restore access. As of Friday night, the most powerful public AI on earth is a black screen, and the kill switch turned out to belong to the state.

THAILAND IMPOSED DEATH SENTENCES on two Uyghur bombers yesterday – and showed that China got it right on dealing with terror attackers. Turkic separatist terrorism is now feared in multiple countries—but NOT in China, where a program of vocational and language training for Uyghur radicals has dropped mass terror attacks to zero for eleven years. Peaceful, ethnically mixed Xinjiang is now one of the world’s top tourism centers, with 300 million visitors a year. This is a huge achievement, given that Uyghur separatists had been committing random acts of terror in China since at least 1990, with hundreds of innocents killed over multiple attacks across two and a half decades. But this has flipped 180 degrees. Xinjiang is at peace. The last mass casualty terrorism incident was in October 2015, when Uyghur knifemen killed at least 16 people. . STIFF POLICING How did China solve its problem? By stiff policing and compulsory vocational training for people associated with radicalism. The NED (a CIA regime-change spin-off) worked with BBC and other western news organizations to rebrand the program as “atrocities”, implying, without evidence, that “millions” had been locked into “concentration camps” and even murdered. But that has been well debunked, and it’s now impossible to avoid the hard fact that the Chinese system deradicalization system has worked. One can just look and see, as millions of visitors do every year. While in the past, visitors were almost all Chinese domestic tourists, these days more than five million international tourists tour Xinjiang every year. Today the Chinese Uyghur community is peaceful, with rising rates of health and wealth. The population is growing in size and in proportion to other ethnic groups. Uyghur longevity in China, at 77 years and rising, has significantly overtaken that of native Americans in the US, at just 70.1 years. Uyghur longevity is now close to that of white Americans, which is 78.4 years. . COMPARE CHINA AND OUTSIDE That’s inside China’s borders. But Uyghur separatists elsewhere? As we mentioned, China solved its problem in 2015, but outside China the problems simply continued unabated: - In 2015, Uyghur separatists bombed the Erawan Shrine in the centre of Bangkok, Thailand, killing 20 people and injuring 120. - In 2016, Indonesian authorities arrested Uyghur terrorists working with the Eastern Indonesia Mujahidin, a terrorist group affiliated with Islamic State. - After a pair of extremist suicide bombings in Brussels, Belgium, in March of 2016, China expressed willingness to work with European countries to combat terrorism. The offer was ignored. - In 2017, a Syrian ambassador warned that 5,000 Uyghurs were fighting in Syria for jihadist groups. Other analysts had different estimates—but all agreed the fighters existed. - In 2019, Four Uyghurs convicted of terror-related offenses in Indonesia were deported to China. - In 2020, risk analysts warned that ISIS-Khorasan had started working with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. This group was known as TIP, for Turkistan Islamic Party. - In 2021, an ISIS-K fighter using the kunya “al-Uyghuri” attacked Shia Muslims in Kunduz, Afghanistan. - In 2022, ISIS-K members made a shooting attack on a hotel in Kabul used by Chinese travelers. - In 2025, the Economist reported that the rebels storming Syria in 2024 to topple Bashar al-Assad included fighters who “had roots in the Chinese region of Xinjiang and were members of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), a group which aims to establish an Islamic state spanning Xinjiang and other parts of Central Asia”. . STORY CANNOT BE TOLD There are plenty of other examples, but the basic conclusion should be clear from those examples. China’s program to eradicate terrorism among its ethnic minority population and create a positive, low-crime community, has been remarkably successful. Unfortunately, this story simply cannot be told to the world. Look up the topic on Google, and you get link after link to the debunked NED/ BBC narrative of “millions” in “concentration camps” in China instead. Ask AI programs for information, and all of them regurgitate the debunked NED/BBC fiction too. Getting the truth out there is as challenging as ever.