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This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving a keynote at Cybernation 2026 in Berlin, Germany, on June 24, 2026. I’m speaking at the Potsdam Conference on National Cybersecurity at the Hasso Plattner Institut in Potsdam, Germany. The event runs June 24–25, 2026, and my talk will be the evening of June 24. I’m participating in a panel discussion at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs in Vienna on Thursday, June 25, 2026. I’m speaking at the Digital Humanism Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, June 26, 2026...

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So you built your stack on a hosted frontier model. Good throughput, clean API, your foreign-national engineers hit the same endpoint as everyone else. Then on June 12 the US government pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for the entire planet, three days after launch, and the reason is a compliance gap baked into how these things actually serve traffic. Here's the thing worth understanding as an engineer: the bug was narrow. The takedown wasn't. The gap between those two facts is where every team running a hosted model should be paying attention. What actually triggered it Commerce hit Anthropic with an order barring access to both models by any foreign national, anywhere, inside or outside the US, including Anthropic's own foreign-national staff. The stated trigger was a jailbreak: point the model at a codebase, ask it to find flaws. That's it. Anthropic reviewed the demo and watched it surface a handful of already-known minor vulns, the kind GPT-5.5 and other public models hand you with no bypass at all. So the capability wasn't exotic. It was automated code review on a Tuesday. The reason it went nuclear is the legal layer sitting on top, not the finding itself. The architecture problem: you can't gate on a passport you can't see Walk it through like any other access-control question. The restriction names a class of users: foreign nationals. Every one of them, globally. Now look at what a model API knows about a session at request time. restriction: deny any foreign national, anywhere session metadata: auth token, IP, usage tier NOT in session: verified nationality isolatable set: ∅ only compliant state: serve nobody An API session doesn't carry a verified passport. IP geolocation is trivially defeated by a VPN and tells you location, not citizenship anyway. There's no field in the request that maps to the restricted class. When you can't isolate the users you're forbidden to serve, the only provably-compliant state is serving no one. Off switch. Global.