US export control directive forces Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide
By
Matthew Burns
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Summary
The US government issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models just three days after launch. The order targets access by any foreign national, including Anthropic's own employees, forcing the company to disable the models for all customers worldwide to comply. Other Anthropic/Claude models remain unaffected. The article was written as the author personally lost access to Fable during the writing process.
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When I started writing this post, around 9:20 p.m. Eastern, I still had access to Fable. At around 10:05 p.m., before publishing, I lost
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