Anthropic has restored its Claude Fable 5 AI model worldwide after the US government lifted export controls that had briefly forced the model offline, according to reporting from NDTV Profit, The Times of India and others.
According to Anthropic (via Techmeme), the US government applied export controls on Friday, June 12, to the company's newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Cybernews and Anadolu Ajansı report that the government has now reversed course and lifted those controls on both the Fable and Mythos models.
The reversal marks what Cybernews called a "dramatic turnaround" for the company. According to The Times of India, Fable 5 is back online after the export controls had forced a shutdown. Let's Data Science reports that Anthropic has brought the model back with tighter safeguards in place.
Anthropic says Fable 5 will be available via usage credits for Claude users starting July 7, according to the company's statement reported by Techmeme. Anthropic also says it is working with partners to draft an AI jailbreak severity standard — a framework for rating how serious attempts to bypass an AI model's safety limits are.
Why it matters: The episode shows how quickly government export rules can pull an AI product from users around the world — and just as quickly restore it — underscoring how tightly advanced AI models are now bound up with national security and trade policy.