[ExI] Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos AI models

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Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos AI models after U.S. government
bars it from giving foreigners access
By Jeremy Kahn    June 13, 2026

<https://fortune.com/2026/06/13/anthropic-disables-fable-mythos-export-controls-national-security-threat/>
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Anthropic was forced to disable all access to its newest AI models,
Fable 5 and Mythos 5, late on Friday after the U.S. Commerce
Department used national security export controls to bar the company
from distributing the models to any foreign national.

The directive includes not just people located outside the U.S., but
also any foreign national in the U.S., including Anthropic’s own
non-citizen employees.

Given the scope of the directive, Anthropic argued it had no choice
but to disable the models for all users. It clarified that access to
its less powerful Claude models, including its latest Claude Opus 4.8
model, was not affected.
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Is this a real fear of dangerous AI? Or just a marketing gimmick?
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