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So Anthropic says now even some of its own employees, who built Anthropic’s most powerful new AI models, Fable 5 and Myt…

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-13

Anthropic is blocking foreign national employees from accessing its most powerful models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after a U.S. government export control directive classified providing advanced AI models to foreign nationals as a controlled export.

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Topics: ai-export-controlsgovernment-policyanthropicai-access-restrictions

Claims

  • Anthropic employees who are foreign nationals and helped build Fable 5 and Mythos 5 will be denied access to those models.
  • A U.S. government export control directive classifies giving foreign nationals access to advanced AI models as a controlled export.
  • The policy affects even Anthropic's own internal staff based on nationality.

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Anthropic says now even some of its own employees, who built Anthropic's most powerful new AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, will not have access to it.
A U.S. government export control directive that treats giving these advanced models to any foreign national [as an export].