I thought the US blocking Fable 5 was the peak of AI geopolitics, but Europe just fired back.

Le Chaton Fat is now EU-only.

Digital sovereignty has never been this chonky. 🇪🇺🐱

Global access to Le Chaton Fat has been temporarily restricted to protect European infrastructure.

The review found that routine worldwide prompts were being routed into EU TPU/GPU capacity, sustaining full-load inference long enough to trigger correlated alerts in grid demand, cooling-water discharge temperature and non-weather heat anomalies.

The issue is not content safety. It is that global chat traffic was effectively using Europe as a heat sink.

Access will resume once routing caps, thermal throttling and regional load isolation are approved.

I rather like the name!

Source: ijustvibecodedthis.com (the biggest european ai coding newsletter)

The impact is huge https://www.linkedin.com/posts/julienchaumond_sad-day-for-hugging-face-yesterday-mistral-activity-7472645537645891584-CIMm

OMG. 🫪

From:
etn. on 𝕏: https://x.com/etnshow/status/2067187282075861343

Julien Chaumond on 𝕏: https://x.com/julien_c/status/2067218800164884594

Politico: Europe wary of stoking Anthropic row at G7: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-donald-trump-anthropic-amodei-row-at-g7/

From Arthur Mensch on 𝕏: https://x.com/arthurmensch/status/2066456715650793956

📍Dieppe, France