> The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Not great as it does break workflows for some.

> As we have stated publicly, we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles.

More free PR for anthropic. “Our models are so powerful the govt shut them down”. Insert image of Dario looking like his dog just died.

So tired of the nonsense.

As the blog appears to be rate limited.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260613005302/https://www.anthr...

Did Anthropic, unlike Open AI, forget to offer free equity to the government?

“Thats a pretty nice IPO you got there… it would be a shame if something happened to it.”

So what now?

They'll make a book with mythos's code and sell it like Phil Zimmerman did with PGP?

Did they suspend it again??

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072

Welcome to the permanent underclass everyone! Get out your license and registration for access to the next gen nerfed model.

it took a long time for this to actually go out.

for what id expect to be an in memory switch, 2-3h is a while

> If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.

Good. 4.8 is good enough.

Omg, did anyone else have to solve like 15 captchas while trying to signup for alerts? I gave up.

feels like competitors influence over government to mess them up.

You can't do that. A lot of engineers got fired because of Fable 5

This whole thing is comedy.

Anthropic pretending Mythos 5 is so capable it's going to destroy everything, but will release it anyway with "safeguards" (when does this ever work?).

US Gov't using this fake hype as an excuse to handicap Anthropic simply because they have a vendetta.

At least on Claude Code it's completely useless. It tells me to run all the commands myself cause it's blocked ("Classifier's blocking me again" lol). Just tried now and saw the msg: "There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5[1m]). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model."

I really have no clue how Anthropic released this thing without doing any real testing. I did use it on claude.ai with no issues; talking just for code.

Probably Iran used Fable to negotiate an awesome deal for them. And made the president angry. xD

"The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any *foreign national*, whether inside or outside the United States, including *foreign national* Anthropic employees."

This press release is odd - it says that the export control was imposed to stop foreign nationals from using Fable / Mythos, and then goes on to talk about supposed concerns about jailbreaking the model.

But is that really the concern of the US Administration? This looks more to me like they are viewing frontier models as a strategic asset which they want to keep for US-exclusive use. I can see the logic - if frontier models generally accelerate a society's technological development, then a country looking to retain or increase its strategic edge over other countries would try and keep this sort of multiplier for themselves.

I'm guessing Anthropic shut of access for everyone because currently they have no reliable way to know whether a user is or is not a US citizen. In the near future we might be in a situation where you need to prove your US citizenship before Anthropic / Open AI will allow you to use their current frontier model.

It’s in the names. Myths and fables. :P

Well, in the brief window that I got to test Fable 5, my brief review is: somehow an (already specced!) minor feature in my 150k loc codebase ended up costing.. $153! For like, an hour or two worth of work and maybe 8 or 9 requests overall. I'd say it was not remotely worth it.

Lmfao

Well, I guess we know whose side they’re on.

Yesterday, was thinking just randomly about Fable 5 and I was thinking that what if Anthropic just removed access to Fable 5 from the subscription to something only API-based and charge so much more excessively from it.

I was this close to predicting the (complete) suspension in some sense but for different reasons (compliance)

but this is a bit of shit-show at this point and I am unsure how involved Anthropic is.

Maybe Anthropic gave us access to Fable 5 for some point so that we can all discuss it and see how Anthropic is relevant as compared to gpt 5.5 (not that I like ClosedAI more but fact is that I have heard decent things about it)

So I am not sure if this suspension can lead to an idea like me. Anthropic showed us a really competent model and then removed it and now you might have to form a custom deal with Anthropic or similar maybe similar to mythos if you wish to access the models and they can rake in extra dollars from top clients.

but they were already doing that with mythos, then what was the point of Fable. PR support that Anthropic hasn't fallen off?

Or maybe I am just overthinking and Anthropic is genuinely hurt by this decision given that they did release the model but US govt said no and US govt and Anthropic has some beef with each other.

There are so many factors for this news and the narrative/implications of that, that it is hard to understand what really happened unless some more news comes (IMO)

Huge PR win for Anthropic if they can restore access within a week or so.

Will be interesting to see OpenAI's next move.