Anthropic Pulls Fable, Mythos After Government Issues Emergency Export Control Order

InnovationAIAnthropic Pulls Fable, Mythos After Government Issues Emergency Export Control OrderByJoe Toscano,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. CEO at Service Stories; Author; Ft Expert, "The Social Dilemma"Follow AuthorJun 13, 2026, 03:53pm EDTThe future of cutting edge frontier AI models remains in limbo as Anthropic works to release Fable and Mythos models after emergency order to block themgettyAnthropic has been forced to shut down access to two of its flagship AI models after the U.S. government issued an emergency directive Thursday citing national security concerns, the company said in a statement posted to its website. Access to all other Anthropic models remains unaffected.The directive, which Anthropic says it received at 5:21 p.m. ET on June 12, stems from the government’s belief that researchers had discovered a way to bypass Fable 5’s safety protections. Anthropic says it reviewed what it believes to be the technique in question and found that it produced only minor vulnerability findings, all of which are already discoverable using other publicly available AI models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5.Access Shut Down For All Anthropic Users GloballyThe company is complying with the order but pushing back hard on the reasoning behind it. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," Anthropic wrote in its statement. The company argued that if this standard were applied industry-wide, it would effectively halt new model launches across every frontier AI developer.The timing is striking. Just two days before receiving the directive, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that governments should have the power to block dangerous AI deployments. The essay compared frontier AI regulation to the Federal Aviation Administration’s aircraft testing standards. "Their re...