The Department of Commerce has lifted the export controls on the AI models.
Anthropic plans to restore access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models to all customers. This follows from a directive from the US government to suspend all access to the models for foreign nationals, with the government citing security concerns.
Source: Anthropic
Anthropic took to social media on June 30, 2026 to announce that it will begin restoring access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models. The company had received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls after suspending foreign national access on June 12.
The statement from Anthropic on June 12 regarding the suspension notes that the US government, citing national security authorities, issued the export control to suspend all access of the products by any foreign national. This included those operating inside or outside of the United States, even impacting foreign Anthropic employees. Anthropic chose to disable the product to all customers to ensure compliance.
The reason this came about was due to a concern regarding jailbreaking the AI models. “To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak,” the Anthropic statement read. “Which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws.” The statement went on to call out the hypocrisy, noting that if this was applied across the industry, Anthropic believes it would “halt all new model deployments.”
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