Foreign-National Ban on Claude Models Reignites the European 'Digital Sovereignty' Debate
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Because the order applies to any foreign national anywhere, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 went dark for enterprise users outside the US overnight, with VentureBeat publishing enterprise contingency guidance. European commentators framed it as shattering the 'safe American cloud' assumption and accelerating sovereignty/self-hosting arguments. Anthropic and the government are negotiating whether the models can return under modified safeguards.