Howard Lutnick
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
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U.S. Orders Anthropic to Disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Worldwide Under an Export Rule Never Before Applied to an AI Model
A Commerce Department directive invoking the deemed-export rule at 15 CFR 734.13 bars all foreign nationals from Anthropic's two most capable models -- forcing the company to disable them for every customer. No record of the order appears in the Federal Register.
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Lutnick Tells Congress Trump's 'Gold Card' Visa Has Approved One Applicant — Thirteen Months After Claiming He Sold 1,000 in a Day
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a House appropriations subcommittee on Thursday that the administration's $1 million Gold Card visa has been approved for one person since applications opened in December. In March 2025, he told the All-In podcast he had 'sold 1,000' of the cards at $5 million each — a claim valued at the time at $5 billion in a single day.