The US government has moved from checking who uses frontier AI to deciding which institutions get to use it at all. Annex A is the permanent structure, and it changes the competitive picture for anyone not on the list.
Anthropic now requires a government ID before accessing its most capable models. What looks like a safety measure is export control, and it is nudging developers toward the Chinese AI alternatives the US is trying to contain.
Anthropic's Fable 5 shipped with two guardrails: one that refused honestly, and one that quietly degraded the answer without telling you. The second is the dangerous kind, and Anthropic's own reversal shows why.
For a while we treated generative AI as a parlour trick with bad hands and a habit of making things up. Five kinds of story ended that phase for me, and raised a harder question than 'will it take my job?'