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The US government issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users, including domestic and foreign nationals. This action was triggered by a discovered narrow jailbreak that allows the models to analyze codebases for software vulnerabilities. Anthropic contends that this capability is widely available in other AI models and used routinely by cybersecurity defenders. The directive affects only these two models; access to other Anthropic models remains unaffected. Anthropic disputes the government's rationale and warns that applying this standard broadly could halt frontier AI model deployments industry-wide.
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Anthropic just posted that the US government issued an export-control directive requiring them to cut off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users. That includes domestic and international customers, and even their own foreign-national employees. Access to every other Anthropic model is unaffected.
The trigger was a jailbreak someone found: getting the model to analyze codebases for software vulnerabilities. Anthropic pushes back on the reasoning, pointing out that this capability is widely available from other models and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe.
Their strongest line is that if this standard were applied across the industry, they believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for every frontier model provider.
So a major lab is being told to pull two of its top models over a capability that exists in plenty of other models already. Curious what people think. Is this a reasonable security move, or a precedent that freezes frontier releases everyone?