Anthropic restores – Anthropic said the U.S. Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, clearing the way to restore access starting tomorrow after a June dispute tied to an export control order involving foreign nationals.
Anthropic told users to prepare for tomorrow—because access to Fable 5 is coming back.
“We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. ” Anthropic said in a statement posted to X on Tuesday. “We’ll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.”.
The reversal lands after a sudden. disruptive escalation with the Trump administration that forced Anthropic to disable access to its most powerful publicly available AI model. On June 12. Anthropic announced it had to “abruptly disable” access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after the Trump administration issued an export control order requiring the AI company to suspend any foreign nationals. including Anthropic’s employees. from accessing either model.
Mythos 5, the latest update to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, had not been widely released to the public as Anthropic said the model’s hacking capabilities were still too powerful.
To resolve the standoff, Anthropic officials traveled to Washington D.C. after the export control order. The company maintained that the order was based on a misunderstanding of a possible Fable 5 “jailbreak.”
The episode has underscored how tangled Anthropic’s relationship with the government remains as the company pushes toward an IPO that could occur as soon as this year. On June 1, Anthropic announced that it had confidentially filed an S-1 draft, the first step toward going public.
The same government scrutiny appears in other parts of Anthropic’s recent history. In March, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth formally labeled Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Anthropic later sued the Trump administration to overturn Hegseth’s order, and that legal challenge remains ongoing.
Long before this export-control dispute, Anthropic was already thinking about how to release its most capable systems safely. In April. the company said the first iteration. Claude Mythos Preview. would only be released to a select number of companies as part of what it called Project Glasswing. Anthropic said the model was too adept at finding and exploiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities. and that holding off on a public release was meant to give companies time to bolster their cybersecurity defenses.
That decision collided with a new policy push. President Donald Trump’s recent AI executive order allows leading AI companies to voluntarily allow the US government to review advanced models up to 30 days before their public release. The executive order came on the heels of the Mythos moment.
Taken together. the timeline is a reminder that the path from lab to public access is no longer just a technical journey for Anthropic. It is also a political and regulatory one—where a single export control order can instantly shut doors. and a lifted restriction can only reopen them after days of negotiation and redeployment.
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