Fable

TL;DR On 12 June 2026 at 5:21pm ET, the US government issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 - globally, for every user, including Anthropic’s own employees The stated reason is national security: the government believes it has identified a method of jailbreaking Fable 5. Anthropic says the evidence was verbal only and describes a narrow, non-universal technique - essentially asking the model to read a codebase and fix software flaws Anthropic reviewed a demonstration and found it surfaced a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities that are widely available from other models Anthropic disagrees that a narrow jailbreak justifies recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people, and warns the same standard would “essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers” All other Anthropic models are unaffected. The company says it believes this is a misunderstanding and is working to restore access Four days. That is how long Mythos-class capability lasted as a publicly available product before the US government ordered it off the shelf. ...

TL;DR Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s first Mythos-class model made safe for general use - state-of-the-art on nearly every benchmark Anthropic tested, with the gap widening on longer, more complex tasks Claude Mythos 5 is the same underlying model with cyber safeguards lifted for Project Glasswing partners; a biology trusted-access program is coming next Risky queries in cybersecurity, biology/chemistry, or suspected distillation attempts are routed to Claude Opus 4.8 instead - roughly 5% of sessions, with Anthropic acknowledging some false positives Pricing drops to $10 / $50 per million input/output tokens - less than half what Mythos Preview cost Fable 5 is free on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through 22 June 2026, then moves to usage credits until capacity catches up Two months ago I wrote that Claude Mythos Preview was the benchmark breaker that would not be released - 93.9% on SWE-bench, thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities found autonomously, access restricted to a dozen companies through Project Glasswing. The question hanging over that post was whether Anthropic could ever democratise Mythos-level capability without democratising the offensive potential. ...