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Apple once turned US export ban on PCs into an ad for the product, its video goes viral
short by Ashley Paul / on Monday, 15 June, 2026
Apple's Power Mac G4 desktop tower systems were victims of US government's export control measures in 1999, similar to Anthropic's Fable and Mythos AI models. However, then-interim CEO Steve Jobs turned it into an ad, saying the PC was "classed as a weapon". The video has now gone viral, as Anthropic has suddenly restricted access to its AI models.