Anthropic Prompted to Take Down Access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by the U.S. Government
After Anthropic debuted Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to general and select organizations last week, the U.S. government 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 Anthropic abruptly disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all its customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models are not affected.
“We are complying with the government’s legal directive and are removing access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users. However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people. If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers,” Anthropic wrote in a statement.
Now, cybersecurity leaders at major U.S. firms including NVIDIA and Adobe are asking 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.
The curbs that Washington has now placed on the technology will limit the cybersecurity industry's ability to find and fix software flaws at a time when other AI tools are making it easier for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities, according to a letter on Sunday signed by more than 50 security leaders.
Anthropic is meeting with White House officials this week in an attempt to overturn the ban.
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