Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Anthropic News / 6/13/2026

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Key Points

  • The US government issued an export-control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend all access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models by any foreign national, including Anthropic employees, effective immediately for compliance.
  • As a result, Anthropic will abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers, while access to other Anthropic models will remain unaffected.
  • The government letter cited national security concerns but did not provide specifics; Anthropic believes it relates to a method for bypassing (“jailbreaking”) Fable 5 and exploiting minor vulnerabilities identified via a demonstration.
  • Anthropic says it previously implemented strong, heavily red-teamed safeguards for Fable, working with US/UK and multiple third parties, and that the safeguards were found to be substantially more effective than prior models.
  • Anthropic notes that, as of the time of writing, no testers have found a universal jailbreak capable of broadly bypassing the safeguards, though the government appears to have identified a specific bypass approach tied to limited issues.

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