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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1782868737528431302153_756477769916599_5611869104617254758_n (2).jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">The San Francisco-based company announced that the US Department of Commerce had ordered it to suspend Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for &quot;national security&quot; reasons, without providing further details.<em> 📷༘ Anthropic/Facebook</em><br/></span></span></span></div><p>SAN FRANCISCO, United States — Anthropic will soon begin restoring access globally to its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the US government lifted a restriction on where they could be released, the company said Tuesday.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/6/15/us-order-cutting-access-to-anthropic-s-ai-models-sparks-criticism-0853">US order cutting access to Anthropic&#x27;s AI models sparks criticism</a></div><p>&quot;We&#x27;ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5,&quot; Anthropic posted on X. &quot;We&#x27;ll begin restoring access tomorrow.&quot;</p><p>Earlier this month, US authorities blocked access to the models on national security grounds.</p><p>Just four days ago, the company said it had received authorization from the government to allow a small group of American cybersecurity firms to access Mythos 5.</p><p>Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said in a June 26 letter to the company that &quot;Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models,&quot; Politico reported.</p><p>The government abruptly forced Anthropic to cut off access to its two cutting-edge artificial intelligence models on June 12 after discovering vulnerabilities in the safeguards put in place to prevent misuse of the tool.</p><p>Like Anthropic, rival AI lab OpenAI has also complied with Washington&#x27;s requests to restrict its own release of a new, powerful model called GPT-5.6 to a limited set of approved partners.</p><p>&quot;This isn&#x27;t quite the process that we think is optimal,&quot; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday in a post on X, alongside an explanation of the GPT-5.6 launch.</p><p>Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/6/5/anthropic-calls-for-pause-of-global-ai-development-0737">Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development</a></div><p>Earlier in the day, CIA Director John Ratcliffe compared the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence models to nuclear weapons, in a tacit defense of the Trump administration&#x27;s recent hard line on controlling the release of the most powerful AI technology.</p><p>&quot;In conversations with many of the president&#x27;s other national security and economic security advisors, we&#x27;re talking about the impact of these frontier AI models,&quot; Ratcliffe said during a speech at the AWS summit in Washington.</p><p>&quot;It would be... not misplaced to refer to their capabilities as akin to digital nuclear weapons,&quot; Ratcliffe said.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><strong><br/></strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eWsQjUj2MdA?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></strong><strong><br/></strong><br/></div>

<p>Anthropic will soon begin restoring access globally to its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the US government lifted a restriction on where they could be released, the company said Tuesday.</p>

Anthropic will soon begin restoring access globally to its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the US government lifted a restriction on where they could be released, the company said Tuesday.

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US govt lifts restrictions on powerful AI models, Anthropic says

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