Anthropic disables Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after US government directive
Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends
Anthropic’s troubles with the US government do not seem to be easing. The company has now been ordered to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, including foreign national Anthropic employees working inside the United States.
Anthropic said it received the directive on June 12 and is disabling the two models for all customers to comply. Other Anthropic models are not affected. The government has not publicly explained the full national security concern, but Anthropic says it understands the order is linked to a reported method for bypassing, or jailbreaking, Fable 5’s safeguards.
A fresh clash after the Pentagon fight
This is not Anthropic’s first serious standoff with Washington. Earlier this year, the company was caught in a dispute with the Pentagon after it refused to remove restrictions preventing Claude from being used for fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. That fight led to claims of blacklisting and legal action, putting Anthropic’s safety-first position directly at odds with parts of the US government.
The latest directive puts Anthropic back in a familiar position. Officials are worried about access to powerful AI systems, while Anthropic argues that its safeguards are being misunderstood or judged by an unrealistic standard.
Why Fable 5 became a concern
The concern around Fable 5 is tied to Mythos 5’s advanced cybersecurity capabilities. Anthropic has said Mythos-class models can discover and exploit software vulnerabilities, and Mythos 5 was reportedly tested by the NSA and other government-linked evaluators before wider release. While those capabilities can help security teams identify and fix weaknesses, they also create national security concerns if they are used for offensive or malicious purposes.
Fable 5 was released only a few days ago as a public version of Mythos 5 with stricter guardrails. Anthropic said it was designed to block or redirect sensitive cybersecurity and biology-related queries to Opus 4.8.
Anthropic says the reported bypass only surfaced minor, already known vulnerabilities and that other public models can do similar things. Still, with a topic as sensitive as cybersecurity, caution is not unreasonable. If Mythos 5 is capable of identifying software vulnerabilities at a high level, then its guardrails cannot be merely good enough. They need to be airtight. Anthropic may argue that the reported jailbreak was narrow, but the government’s concern this time is easier to understand. In this case, “better safe than sorry” may be the government’s most defensible position.
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