One government order just switched off the most powerful AI on earth, for everyone, apart for a select few. Days after it launched.
That’s the entire argument for open, decentralized AI, made in a single afternoon.
But “decentralized” is getting flattened into compute markets and token charts. The actual lesson is about control: who holds the off-switch, and who steers the rules.
Open weights stop one company from owning the model. They don’t stop a handful of core devs, or one directive, from deciding how it evolves. Bitcoin is “decentralized” and still runs through a few maintainers. Open AI inherits the same trap.
Effective Community-governed AI has been shrugged off as idealistic and it certainly doesn't come from jsut voting, nobody reads a million proposals. It'll come through consensus computed directly from what users specify.
That’s the layer we’re building with Tau Net.
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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