On June 12, 2026, the US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to halt access to its new "Fable 5" and "Mythos 5" models for all foreign nationals, and the company immediately disabled both models for every customer worldwide. The directive was conveyed around 5:21 p.m. ET on Friday, June 12, instructing the company to stop access by foreign nationals inside and outside the US, including Anthropic's own foreign employees. Direct export-control intervention against AI models is unprecedented, and the company says no other Anthropic models (such as standard Claude) were affected.
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