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


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.
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