U.S. GOVERNMENT FORCES ANTHROPIC DISABLE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS 5 CITING NATIONAL SECURITY
June 13th, 2026Ahh, ye olde oh shit moment?
Or, does this have more to do with the friction between Anthropic and the U.S. Government?
Anthropic has said it will not back down in a fight with the US Department of Defense (DoD) over how its artificial intelligence (AI) technology is used.
The firm’s chief executive Dario Amodei said on Thursday that his company would rather not work with the Pentagon than agree to uses of its tech that may “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”
His comments come two days after a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over demands that Anthropic accept “any lawful use” of its tools. It ended with a threat to remove Anthropic from the DoD’s supply chain.
“These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request,” Amodei said.
At issue for Anthropic is the potential use of its AI tools like Claude for two purposes: “Mass domestic surveillance” and “Fully autonomous weapons.”
Amodei said “such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now.”
In any event, I wonder if people had enough time to run knowledge distillation operations against Fable 5 and Mythos 5 before access was cut off?
Via: Anthropic:
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. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.
