After the US government barred non-US citizens from accessing Anthropic's new Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, the European Commission is weighing the fallout. The European Commission says it is currently assessing the practical impact of the US export control order that forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide. Thomas Regnier, the Commission's spokesperson for technological sovereignty, told Euronews that emergency measures must "not be discriminatory against partners" and called it a "shared challenge, not one confined to a single jurisdiction or company." The development is "a ​further ⁠illustration of why Europe needs to strengthen its technological sovereignty," he added. Days earlier, Anthropic had pulled its most advanced models worldwide following a US government order tied to national security concerns. Talks to restore access are ongoing. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will join the heads of other leading AI companies at a working dinner with G7 leaders on Wednesday. In a collection of statements published by the Science Media Center, several European researchers describe the situation as a wake-up call but disagree sharply on what Europe should do. Thorsten Holz of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy called it striking that a single foreign government order could "shut down a model overnight for all non-US citizens." Konrad Rieck of TU Berlin said US models can be "shut off at any time, sometimes for opaque reasons," and Europe needs to develop its own capable