Andrew Ng's The Batch Warns Both Washington and Anthropic Just Demonstrated They Can Switch Off Access to Frontier AI
The Batch (DeepLearning.AI)·medium signal
In The Batch issue #358 (June 19), Andrew Ng argues that two events in the prior fortnight — the US export order and Anthropic's own compliance pull of Fable 5/Mythos 5 — show that governments and labs alike now hold a kill switch over who can use frontier models and how. He frames this as a worrying consolidation of control that cuts against AI openness. For builders, Ng's takeaway reinforces the case for open-weight models you can self-host, since hosted frontier access is now demonstrably revocable.