Claude Fable 5 access set to resume after export controls are lifted
Anthropic said the Commerce Department lifted controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after weeks of talks with the Trump administration.
By Maya Lindqvist · Senior Technology Correspondent
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Anthropic said it will start bringing Claude Fable 5 back online after the Department of Commerce lifted export controls on the model. The move matters because the restrictions had cut off access to one of Anthropic’s recently promoted AI systems for foreign nationals, including some customers and employees, according to The Verge.
In a June 30 post on X, Anthropic said it had received notice that Commerce had removed export controls on both Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The company said it would begin restoring access on July 1 and would provide another update soon.
The Verge reported that the change followed weeks of talks between Anthropic and the Trump administration. Anthropic thanked its users for waiting and said people had worked with the company on bringing the models back into use, according to the company’s X post.
Fable 5 is Anthropic’s consumer-facing model in the same Mythos-class family as Mythos 5, The Verge reported. The Verge described Fable 5 as built on the same underlying technology as Mythos 5 but with added safeguards.
Anthropic pulled Fable 5 offline in early June after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration, according to The Verge. The Verge reported that the government acted over concerns that the technology could be jailbroken, issuing an export control directive that barred foreign nationals from using either Fable 5 or Mythos 5.
Those limits reached beyond customers overseas, according to The Verge. The restrictions applied to non-U.S. members of enterprise client companies and also covered many Anthropic employees who are foreign nationals, The Verge reported.
The decision comes after the Trump administration allowed Mythos 5 to return under narrower terms, according to The Verge. That earlier approval applied only to a pre-approved list of organizations, while non-U.S. members of those organizations and Anthropic’s foreign national employees were allowed to use the model, The Verge reported.
The Verge reported that the Mythos 5 decision came soon after OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6. According to The Verge, the Trump administration permitted that model to launch under similar limits, with a staggered release at first restricted to pre-approved organizations and government departments.
The export fight landed at a sensitive time for Anthropic, The Verge reported. The company is preparing for an IPO and has been in a months-long dispute with the government over a supply chain risk designation, according to The Verge.
This story draws on original reporting from The Verge.