June 17, 2026 · CNBC
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its most powerful models just three days after launch
My take: On June 9th, Anthropic launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its most capable models yet made publicly available. Just three days later, on June 12th, the company had to pull them offline following a US export-control directive barring access for foreign nationals, and since Anthropic cannot verify citizenship in real time, it shut both models down for everyone. It marks the first time a government has forced a deployed frontier AI model offline.
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