A “source close to” embattled AI company Anthropic says senior company members are working to come to an agreement with the Trump Administration in Washington, D.C. on Sunday after a White House order essentially forced Anthropic’s flagship product to be taken offline, according to Axios. On Friday, Anthropic’s most prized advanced AI models were disabled by the company after the federal government issued an export control order requiring that Anthropic not allow them to be used by non-U.S. nationals. Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are so-called “Mythos-class” models, meaning they’re models built on the same core technology as Claude Mythos Preview, the notorious model Anthropic announced in April. It claimed at the time that Mythos Preview was too powerful to release due to high potential for abuse that may have jeopardized global cybersecurity—as well as presenting other supposed dangers.
Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the models taken down Friday are meant to be tamed versions of Mythos Preview, made safe by extensive and conspicuous guardrails. Those models had a brief life as publicly available products that could be accessed by users with paid Claude accounts, which lasted from Tuesday until Friday night—supposedly because the federal government was alerted to potential jailbreaks that could have allowed users to bypass the safeguards.
