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

recursivedoubts

May you live in interesting times.

EduardoBautista

Well maybe now they will learn that they shouldn’t overhype the capabilities of their models.

nphard85

Will there be refund?

SXX

Finally they will pay for all the scaremongering they been doing to sell their models as something so much ahead of all else. Now they finally found the right fools in audience to believe it.

chrismsimpson

My agitating prayer is that other nations (even so called US allies) will nationalise what they can (ie model weights already deployed within their jurisdictions). This is the only way to respond to a rogue US administration.

tehjoker

If I read that right, the "jailbreak" is to ask the model to fix the codebase and then it exposes the flaws? That sounds like a gap that is nearly impossible to fix while retaining high capability. Like you want it to be able to fix your codebase...

arplynn

US Government does bizarre, erratic thing which will likely be walked back shortly. Spectators nonplussed. Film at 11. Europe really needs to get some useful sovereign capability and right quick.

Levitz

I'm confused, this just happened recent no? Why does the date read "Jun 11, 2026" ?

wewewedxfgdf

I guess if the CEO goes running around saying his own product is a pending mega disaster for society....... I'm glad I don't own stock in a public Anthropic.

jordemort

Nothing but the highest quality drama and theater from Anthropic, as always

hgoel

Well, there go any such claims of dangerousness in future models, regardless of if they are true or false. No one's going to risk building anything important on these models if the government will randomly order the use of the model to be discontinued by all foreigners, regardless of if they are in the US or not. Just a matter of a foreign company catching up to take the commercial market for such models (though, as the US often does, they'll ban the competitor, so actually we'll have a situation where the backend uses a different model in only the US).

consumer451

> 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. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. How will this be implemented/verified? Also, does this mean that American citizens abroad will still be able to access it?

rvz

So the US government was able to shut down that upgraded version of that slot machine in Anthropic's casino because of how powerful it is? There is something called the Streisand effect and they are about to unintentionally get a bunch of more token gamblers into their casino. We'll see if this backfires hard, but then again constant doomsaying will get yourself under scrutiny and self exclusion (due to the 30+ day retention clause) and this is exactly what Anthropic wants for free marketing.

dramaqueens

Nice drama, LOL!! I still remember ChatGPT is very dangerous to be released a long time back. World is fine now!!

maxall4

> We have reviewed the report and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe. We will share more details over the next 24 hours. So much for all of the rhetoric about Mythos supposedly far surpassing GPT 5.5 (edit: in cybersecurity, in particular). Of course, the AISI benchmarks also showed this, but it is amusing that Anthropic is saying it now that it is to their advantage.

joe_the_user

So eventually, you will have a massive string of data centers working to full capacity and whose only client will the US government?

left-struck

I have to wonder if their aggressive guardrails were because they had a specific reason to believe that this was coming.

TIPSIO

Really sick of this stupid narrative. The most ethical goal of an AI lab or government should be to bring the maximum amount of intelligence for as cheap as possible to the people equally.

dmitrygr

1. Lie about making thinking machines smarter than humans 2. Get treated like you actually did what you claimed, and face consequences 3. ??? 4. Profit

JumpCrisscross

Who in government? Link to the order?