U.S. Orders Anthropic to Block Foreign Access to Its Top AI Models

Anthropic said it has disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving an order from the U.S. government on Friday afternoon. The company said the directive cited national security authorities and required it to suspend access by any foreign national.

Reports said the Trump administration is blocking foreign governments, companies and individuals from using Anthropic's most advanced models. Anthropic said it complied with the order, and users of the two models lost access after the shutdown.

The company said the models were released this month and are among its latest top AI systems. Anthropic also said it believes the government got the issue wrong, but it still followed the directive.

It ordered Anthropic to stop foreign nationals, companies and governments from accessing its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.

Anthropic said it did so to comply with a U.S. export control directive tied to national security concerns.

The affected models were Fable 5 and Mythos 5, which Anthropic said are among its most advanced systems.

Reuters

The Trump administration is blocking foreign governments, companies and ‌individuals from accessing Anthropic's most advanced AI models, Axios reported on Friday.

CNBC

Anthropic said it disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with an export control directive from the U.S. government that cited "national security authorities." The company said it received an order Friday afternoon instructing it to suspend all access to the models "by any forei...

WSJ

All Fable 5 and Mythos 5 users have lost access after the Trump administration declared the models security risks.

TechCrunch

The U.S. government on Friday ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off access to two of its most powerful AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — citing national security concerns. Anthropic announced on X that it has complied, but it made clear it thinks the government got this one wrong.

NYTimes

The San Francisco company said on Friday night that the federal government ordered the suspension of the two A.I. systems, citing national security concerns.

Business Insider

Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are Anthropic's latest top AI models, released this month. Anthropic said a US order bars any foreign entities or individuals from using its models.

Business Insider

Anthropic says the Trump Administration ordered it to block foreign access to two powerful AI models. In response, the company cut off all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

The Guardian

Company said US government believes safeguards can be bypassed and product used to identify software vulnerabilities

VentureBeat

The US government last night issued an unprecedented export control directive ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend all access to its top-tier Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, citing unspecified national security authorities. In response, Anthropic has blocked all...

Skynews

Anthropic has withdrawn its powerful Fable 5 model after the US government ordered the company to revoke access to all foreign nationals.

Business Insider

Dario Amodei has warned that his latest AI model, Mythos, was so powerful it posed a serious threat. The Trump administration just ordered Anthropic to block foreign access to Mythos.

WSJ

Information Andy Jassy shared with the Trump administration sparked an abrupt, sweeping move to halt foreign access to the company's powerful AI tools.

Reuters

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among tech leaders who raised concerns to ‌senior Trump administration officials this week about security risks in Anthropic's most advanced AI models, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Market Watch

Anthropic has blocked access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the government flagged them as a security threat when used by foreign nationals.

TechCrunch

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.

TechCrunch

Anthropic's sudden move to suspend access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive has raised fresh questions across the global technology industry. In India, the decision has reignited a long-running debate over whether one of the world's largest AI markets can afford to rely o...

The Motley Fool

Anthropic says its new Claude Fable family of models is as powerful as the Mythos model that it chose not to release to the public. Over the past several months, the company has signed a number of partnerships with AI hyperscalers.

Reuters

The European Commission said on Sunday that it is assessing the practical implications of a U.S. export ‌control directive impacting artificial intelligence company Anthropic and that measures should not be discriminatory against partners.

Reuters

Senior Anthropic technical staff are ‌in Washington to meet with White House officials to ⁠try resolving a dispute that has taken the company's most advanced AI models offline, ‌Axios ⁠reported on Sunday, citing a source close to ⁠the company.

WSJ

Startup is seeking a deal to end export restrictions that led to shutdown of its most powerful AI models.

PYMNTS

Anthropic has disabled some access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models. The move came Friday (June 12) in response to a U.S. government export control directive which cited unspecified “national security authorities,” the company wrote in its announcement.

New York Post

The company's seemingly contradictory words and actions drew scorn from Trump officials who noted Anthropic has spent months stoking fears about potential AI doomsday scenarios.

CNBC International TV

The European Union and the U.K. are weighing their responses after the Trump administration restricted access to Anthropic's most advanced AI models. That, in turn, prompted Anthropic to fully suspend access to those models worldwide.

Reuters

Cybersecurity leaders at major U.S. firms including Nvidia and Adobe have asked the Trump administration to lift restrictions on Anthropic's most powerful AI models, arguing that the bans hamper efforts to prevent the spread of digital attacks.

WSJ

The lawsuit, which is seeking class-action status, alleges the company oversold usage allowances on its priciest Claude chatbot tiers.

Bloomberg Markets and Finance

The US government has ordered Anthropic PBC to disable access to its most advanced AI models, such as Mythos and Fable 5, for all foreign nationals. The order comes after the US government discovered it's possible to “jailbreak,” or bypass the guardrails, of the Fable 5.

Bloomberg Markets and Finance

The US Commerce Department imposed export controls on June 12 restricting Anthropic from offering its most advanced AI models to foreign nationals. In response, Anthropic announced it would halt access to these models for all users, citing the impracticality of policing usage on a case-by-case basis...

CNBC

Senior Anthropic staffers are meeting with the Trump administration to try to resolve the company's latest dispute with the government. Anthropic was ordered to suspend access to its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, by any foreign national.

TechCrunch

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models.

Reuters

Senior Anthropic technical staff are ‌scheduled to meet with government officials at the U.S. Department ⁠of Commerce in Washington on Monday, an official in the Trump administration said, after the U.S. ‌government ⁠ordered the AI firm late last week to suspend ⁠access to its top-tier mod...

PYMNTS

Anthropic is reportedly working with the White House to resolve a ban on its products.

Business Insider

Anthropic is yet again in the Trump administration's crosshairs. The White House imposed export controls on the firm's latest AI models.

New York Post

Some of Anthropic's top staffers are holed up in Washington DC as the company scrambles to reverse a White House crackdown on its “Mythos” and “Fable” AI models.

GeekWire

Andy Jassy was reportedly among the tech leaders who flagged security risks in Anthropic's newest AI models to senior Trump administration officials — an awkward turn for Amazon, which has invested billions in the AI lab.

Business Insider

The US imposed export controls on Anthropic's newest AI models. In response, Anthropic closed access.

Forbes

Fable 5 was released to the public on Tuesday with what Anthropic called “strong safeguards to prevent misuse.” These essentially prevented users from entering prompts about certain topics, like cybersecurity needed to develop advanced hacking techniques and biology needed to develop bioweapons.

Proactive Investors

Anthropic representatives are meeting with officials in Washington, DC, today to resolve a deepening dispute with the US government after the Trump administration issued an export control directive Friday ordering the company to suspend access to its two most powerful AI models. The company received...

Bloomberg Technology

Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow breaks down why Anthropic disabled access to its most advanced models for all foreign nationals after a request from the Trump administration. Plus, Nvidia is seeking to raise at least $20 billion from its first corporate bond sale since 2021.

Bloomberg Technology

Cohere Chief AI Officer Joelle Pineau says Cohere has seen a huge number of inbounds after Anthropic was ordered by the US government to disable access to its most advanced AI platforms for all foreign nationals, with governments and investors alike now seeking non-US models as Washington steps up i...

TechCrunch

The U.S. government's enforcement letter to Anthropic, which effectively forced the company to pull its latest AI models offline just before the weekend, should be a wake-up call for any U.S. tech company — AI lab or otherwise.

WSJ

‘Both parties are working quickly to get this resolved,' Anthropic says in its first public comments since it pulled the Fable and Mythos models.

Reuters

The European Commission is still in contact ‌with U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic over its decision to disable ⁠its most advanced AI models following an order from the government and other issues, a Commission spokesperson said on Tuesday.

New York Post

The Trump administration is open to negotiating with Anthropic over its order barring foreigners from the company's most powerful artificial intelligence models, The Post has learned.

CNBC

Traders on prediction market platform Kalshi think there's a 58% chance Anthropic will restore access to Fable 5 to U.S. customers by July 1. Anthropic disabled access to the model after an order from the U.S. government Friday evening.

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Jul 11, 2026

U.S. Orders Anthropic to Block Foreign Access to Its Top AI Models

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