Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Disabled by US Order
Three days after Anthropic shipped what it called its most capable public model, the US government ordered it switched off. Claude Fable 5 and the gated Mythos 5 went dark worldwide on June 12, 2026, after an export control directive citing an alleged jailbreak and possible Chinese access. The standoff has produced two sharply different accounts, a looming IPO complication, and a precedent-setting question: who actually gets to pull a frontier model after it ships?