Imagine a lead developer in Berlin or a security researcher in Paris ending their Thursday with the most sophisticated coding partner ever built, only to wake up on Friday, June 12, 2026, to a 403 Forbidden error. This was no routine maintenance window or technical glitch; it was a geopolitical foreclosure. Overnight, Anthropic’s “Mythos-class” models, the revolutionary Claude Fable 5 and its internal progenitor, Mythos 5, were silenced across Europe by a direct order from the U.S. government. At PixelUnion, we have long been a voorvechter (advocate) for European technical autonomy, and we view this blackout as the ultimate “canary in the coal mine.” It is a brutal reminder that when you plug into someone else’s power grid, the owner can cut the current without warning.
Let’s buy some more F-35s and deepen our tech dependence on US companies! 🥴 (/s). What a @#$ing waste of money and massive risk that US will brick or seize things bought from US
~3 years ago I had the same experience when I opened Apollo and it no longer worked with Reddit.
The world kind of learned this recently when Ebola outbreak started and nobody else had stepped up to fill the void the US left.
Really 3 years? I thought it was longer than that I last posted or logged into reddit a little over a year ago.