Lowdown: Legal tech firm sues US over Anthropic AI access ban for foreign nationals

Download a copy of the lawsuit here. The US government cannot use export-control laws to restrict access to Anthropic’s AI models because no existing export control covers hosted AI models or their outputs, according to a lawsuit filed by Legion LegalTech against the US government in a federal court in Washington, DC. Filed on June 23, the lawsuit argues that the government’s June 12 directive ordering Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals worldwide excee