Anthropic shuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after US export-control order

The directive reaches foreign nationals inside the US, including Anthropic employees, turning frontier-model access into an export-compliance problem.

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The order turns frontier AI access into an export-control issue, forcing founders to design around nationality, employee access and sudden model takedowns.

Illustration of a large authoritative hand reaching to disconnect glowing neural-network streams labeled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for Anthropic.

Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei was forced late Friday, June 12th, to shut off the company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all customers after the US government issued an export-control directive barring access by foreign nationals, including Anthropic's own foreign national employees.…

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