U.S. orders Anthropic to suspend foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The U.S. government issued an export-control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. Anthropic said it complied Friday evening, disabling those models for non-U.S. users and for foreign-national Anthropic employees, while contesting that a reported universal jailbreak alone justifies a permanent recall. Officials cited national security concerns and the claimed universal jailbreak as the reason for the order, applying export controls to restrict cross-border use of the company’s most advanced commercial models. The decision raises immediate questions about identity verification, export rules, and which governments or companies will control access to frontier AI capabilities going forward.
