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Commerce Department retreated this Wednesday and Anthropic reactivated the model with a new classifier against the jailbreak pointed out by Amazon researchers. Mythos 5 remains confined to about 100 American organizations.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has authorized Anthropic to distribute Mythos 5 to over 100 U.S. companies and federal agencies, ending restrictions imposed on June 12. Fable 5 remains blocked, and clients outside the U.S. continue to lack access.
The Trump administration has requested OpenAI to limit the launch of GPT-5.6 to government-approved partners on a case-by-case basis, citing offensive cybersecurity capabilities comparable to Anthropic Mythos.
The European Commission announced on June 19 the winner of the Frontier AI Grand Challenge. Domyn leads a group that will train an open model with over 400 billion parameters using up to 2.5% of EuroHPC's capacity.
CMA utilized the DMCC Act to impose objective criteria for organic ranking, including AI Overviews, and grant users the right to port search data to third parties. Google has six and three months to comply.
Letter hosted on freefable.org lists Alex Stamos, Katie Moussouris, Jon Callas, and Casey Ellis as signatories. Bloomberg publishes the full text of Lutnick's letter that halted the models.
Senior executives from the company met with the White House and Department of Commerce on Monday to try to reverse the order that has kept Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline since the night of June 12.
The European Commission confirmed it is studying the practical effects of the U.S. Department of Commerce's order against Anthropic. Spokesperson Thomas Regnier defended the bloc's technological sovereignty.
The shutdown of Anthropic's models intensifies pressure from the Fed, OCC, FDIC, and BaFin regarding kill switches, exit plans, and AI vendor diversification among banks in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Brazil.
By directive from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Anthropic has suspended access to the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals. The company disabled both for its entire customer base on the night of June 13, less than 96 hours after launch.
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general in the U.S. has issued a subpoena to OpenAI demanding documents regarding user data, minors, and sycophancy of the models, introducing material legal risk into the largest IPO in artificial intelligence history.
For the first time, the CEOs of the three largest AI companies in the world confirmed attendance at the G7, convening in Évian on June 15. The positions of OpenAI and Anthropic on binding regulation are incompatible, entering the forum without internal consensus.