Tech’s biggest story today is how quickly AI has become a matter of state power. Anthropic abruptly took its flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline after a U.S. export-control directive barred access by foreign nationals worldwide, including some of the company’s own employees, in a move reportedly tied to national security fears over a possible jailbreak. The company says the evidence was thin and the shutdown temporary, but the episode underscores how frontier AI is now being governed like sensitive infrastructure. OpenAI, meanwhile, is facing pressure from another direction: a sweeping subpoena from a coalition of state attorneys general seeking records on consumer data, vulnerable users, advertising, and model behavior. And as regulators tightened their grip on AI, Meta offered a reminder of the fragility of digital life more broadly, with outages hitting Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger before uneven recovery began.