Anthropic suspends Fable 5 for non-US citizens, igniting India's sovereign AI debate

anthropic suspended access to its fable 5 and mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals, complying with a us government directive reportedly tied to jailbreak vulnerabilities flagged by amazon ceo andy jassy. this abrupt cutoff impacts india, which anthropic and openai cite as their second-largest market, and follows a recent high-profile partnership with tata consultancy services. indian founders are now calling for accelerated domestic ai development and open-source adoption, warning that geopolitical access restrictions put global engineering teams at a competitive disadvantage. the dispute highlights the fragility of relying on foreign infrastructure for critical national ai capabilities.