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Why Was Claude Fable 5 Blocked? The US Government Shutdown, Explained

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What happened

A government order switched off a frontier model.

On June 12, 2026 — three days after launch — a US export-control directive forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers worldwide. A first in AI history.

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