According to CoinWorld, the White House's emergency ban on the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models has caused a major upheaval within Anthropic. According to internal chat logs disclosed by the New York Times, a private group chat of 3,000 employees erupted in chaos. Management was caught off guard after receiving only a 90-minute deadline from the White House to remove the models. Employees worried that the sudden technology ban would destroy the company's planned IPO this year and were confused by the White House's vacillating narrative between "national security" and "security vulnerabilities." Some employees joked that they were being "bullied by intuition" by the White House, while others pessimistically suggested that the government's regulatory crackdown made them suspect that the White House "didn't want Anthropic to continue existing." Earlier this year, Anthropic clashed with the Pentagon over its refusal to allow AI to participate in military operations, and the Secretary of Defense designated it as a "supply chain risk," making it the first U.S. company to be labeled a national security risk.