On June 12, developers across Europe woke up to a 403 error. Not a bug. A geopolitical decision. β οΈ
The U.S. government banned Anthropic's most advanced AI models for European users overnight. No warning. No appeal. Just a kill switch.
If the infrastructure is American, someone else holds the keys.
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When a U.S. export-control order silenced Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 across Europe overnight, it shattered the myth of the 'safe American cloud', and proved digital sovereignty is now a survival requirement.
