Anthropic has abruptly disabled its newly launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all customers to comply with an urgent export control directive from the U.S. government today.

And Anthropic cannot selectively block foreign nationals while keeping the system open, they had no choice but to take both models entirely offline worldwide.

Will we see a time in the future when Local LLM’s get the crypto export ban treatment

  • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    13 days ago

    Its a win for anthropic, they don’t have to run the expensive model, but they’ve already taken everyone’s money.

    (I have no idea if they are giving refunds, but I’d assume not)

    • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      They are. But the reputational cost? Who knows.

      Edit: just got an email

      Hello,

      We recently removed access to Claude Fable 5 to ensure compliance with a recent US government directive. Here’s a summary of what’s happened:

      You no longer have access to Claude Fable 5 You still have access to all other Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models We reset your usage limits If this change doesn’t work for how you use Claude, you can cancel your subscription and get an automatic prorated refund.* To do so, visit this link from a web browser and click “Cancel plan” by Saturday, June 20, 2026, at 11:59 PM PDT (UTC−7). Note that this link will not work in the Claude mobile app. If you subscribed through Apple, please request your refund directly through Apple’s refund support.

      We apologize for the disruption. You can learn more about Anthropic’s response and what led to this decision.

      • Refunds are only available to eligible people who purchased a plan or upgraded their plan between 10:00 AM PDT on June 9, 2026, and 12:00 AM PDT on June 14, 2026 (UTC−7).

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      1·
      12 days ago

      That’s a very short-term win, if so, with a long-term cost. Now anyone who’s thinking of spending money on an Anthropic subscription (or any other big American company for that matter) needs to consider the possibility that the product they get will be “too good” and therefore will suddenly get yoinked out from under them by the US government.

      That long-term impact will be very beneficial for the local and open models because they can’t be taken away like that.

      • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        True, but are these AI companies concerned about the long term? They are both planning to IPO soon, so pumping the short term may be all they care about.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
          1·
          12 days ago

          I don’t really care what they’re concerned about, I’m personally a long-term thinker on this.