Feds Pull the Plug on the Most Powerful Public AI Model in a First for the Industry
Reporting on the directive frames it as the first time the US federal government has forced a leading lab to take a publicly deployed frontier model offline. The Commerce Department's export-control order restricts foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5; because Anthropic cannot reliably identify foreign users in real time, the practical effect is a hard global shutoff. The stated basis is a claimed Fable 5 jailbreak, which Anthropic disputes.
Reporting on the directive frames it as the first time the US federal government has forced a leading lab to take a publicly deployed frontier model offline. The Commerce Department's export-control order restricts foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5; because Anthropic cannot reliably identify foreign users in real time, the practical effect is a hard global shutoff. The stated basis is a claimed Fable 5 jailbreak, which Anthropic disputes.
Source: CNBC · 2026-06-12 · https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/anthropic-disables-access-to-fable-5-and-mythos-5-to-comply-with-government-directive.html
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