that of technological sovereignty

The latest Anthropic model, Fables 5it’s amazing. That is, at least, what we know thanks to the evidence we have been able to see. Because one thing happens: Anthropic has deactivated Fable 5. In response to a order of the United States that dictated that Anthropic must suspend access to these models for any foreign citizen inside and outside the country, the AI ​​company turned off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 completely last June 12. Europe has not been slow to respond, but it is really great for keep pushing your message.

That of technological sovereignty.

In short. That Anthropic and the United States are not on a honeymoon is evident from the mess with the Pentagon and the Department of Defense, but what happened in these last few hours goes one step further. Citing national security concerns, the United States issued an export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.

This is already serious, but in addition, the company states that it is something that includes Anthropic’s national employees. In response, the company disabled the two models to ensure that that order is met. The United States’ motivation for giving the order was that they had discovered (or that Amazon had informed them about it) a bug in Fable 5 that allowed ‘jailbreaking’ the model, a vulnerability that Anthropic reviewed and which they believe is also in other publicly available models.

Europe responds. Beyond the repercussion for the company, it is something more serious: once again, the United States dictating what a citizen of another country who pays (or who does not pay, because right now it is in the free trial phase) can and cannot do a product from a private technology company. And this has been great for Europe to continue strengthening its position on technological sovereignty.

The European Commission has not been slow to position itself, stating that it is evaluating the practical implications of the export control directive implemented on Anthropic, pointing out that the measures should not be discriminatory against partner countries. Commission spokesperson Thromas Regnier points out that, while the new generation of AI models offers advantages for cyber defense, it also raises cybersecurity concerns.

However, he considers that contingency measures should not be discriminatory against partners and takes the opportunity to remember the European position of recent months. In the statement, Regnier states that the Commission is “closely examining the practical consequences of this measure for European users” and concludes by reinforcing the message of technological autonomy: “this episode is one more example of why Europe needs to strengthen its technological sovereignty.”

Sovereignty. This term will be one of the star words of this year because recent events are leading several countries to strengthen their own ecosystems. The United States has the big technology companies, but China has already put its plan to become the leading world power on the table. And Europe has arrived later in the race, but has gotten fully into it.

With the threats of the United States of leave NATOhe Donald Trump’s aggressive language against allied countries and the dependence on American technology like SpaceX In the war between Ukraine and Russia, Europe has realized that it must change the chip, betting again on technological infrastructure. That includes from chip development to its own AI models, through the rearmament announced last year and the boost to the aerospace arm.

Slow independence. Beyond the message from the European Commission, other parliamentarians have pronounced about it. Aura Salla, MEP for Finland, pointed out that “Europe cannot continue to increase its technical potential by relying on access that can be cut off by a foreign government overnight”, reinforcing that European message.

own The New York Times A few days ago, he echoed the European plan to reduce dependence on American technology, alluding to the tense relationship with the Trump administration and mentioning that 80% of the digital products, services, infrastructure and intellectual property of the countries of the Union depend on companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Now, these changes, unlike turning off a model like Fable 5, cannot be made overnight. They are slow and require a complex resilience process that, however, can be accelerated driven by actions such as those taken last Friday by the United States.

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