The Department of Commerce lifts export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, restoring access for foreign users after negotiations led by Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown and approval from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the White House.The controls followed an order that forced Anthropic to suspend access for foreign nationals, a response to a jailbreak discovered by Amazon that let users bypass Fable 5’s guardrails and trigger Mythos-level capabilities.Commerce had already allowed limited access to Mythos 5 for approved partners under Project Glasswing while Anthropic strengthened safeguards and changed its communications with the White House.Anthropic is contesting a supply chain risk label applied by Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth, has filed a confidential S-1 earlier this month to pursue an initial public offering, and the
White House has pressed
OpenAI to limit access to GPT 5.6.