I suspect if OpenAI or Grok was operating at the same level they wouldn’t find themselves on the sharp end of the government stick
I guess that is how it always starts.
The fascist is inside the building.
Trying to discern the motive for something like this in a court is a losing game. The opposing side has a good argument ("Anthropic said this is a weapon, so we're controlling it like a weapon") that does not involve first amendment protection.
Anthropic shot themselves in the foot, and they have nobody to blame but themselves.
There are multiple models at the level of or better than Fable / Mythos (see OpenRouter's just released Fusion API) and none of them are getting restricted.
Governments don't give up power, and once there's precedence for use of that power they'll continue to do it and begin eyeing the next power they can claim.
IF LLMs are THAT dangerous and powerful (and that's a huge if that I do not currently subscribe to), then no, no one should have access at all, there is no group of people in positions of power (government or corporate power) that I would consider "restrained"