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changelogAnthropic

Anthropic disables Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following US government order citing national security

Anthropic disabled all customer access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, 2026, following a US government order citing national security concerns. The government mandated suspension of access for all foreign nationals, including Anthropic employees, based on evidence of a potential jailbreak method for Fable 5.

2 min readvia engadget.com
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changelogAnthropic

U.S. Government Orders Anthropic to Shut Down Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models

The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to immediately shut down access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on Friday, citing national security concerns. Anthropic received the directive at 5:21 pm ET and has complied, disabling both models worldwide, but says the government received only verbal evidence of a 'potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak.'

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changelogAnthropic

US Government Orders Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access Over Jailbreak Concerns

The US government has ordered Anthropic to immediately suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all users, citing national security concerns over an alleged jailbreak technique. Anthropic states the directive, received at 5:21pm ET, provided no specific details beyond a claimed bypass method that other publicly-available models can already perform.

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model releaseApple

Apple releases AFM 3 lineup: 20B-parameter on-device model and cloud AI running on Google's Nvidia infrastructure

Apple announced five third-generation foundation models at WWDC26, headlined by AFM 3 Core Advanced—a 20-billion-parameter sparse model that runs on-device by activating only 1-4 billion parameters at a time. For the first time, Apple extended Private Cloud Compute to third-party infrastructure, with AFM 3 Cloud Pro running on Nvidia GPUs in Google Cloud.

3 min readvia 9to5mac.com
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analysisAnthropic

Anthropic reverses course on invisible Claude Fable distillation guardrails after researcher backlash

Anthropic is making its anti-distillation safeguards visible in Claude Fable 5 after backlash over silently degrading responses when it detected attempts to use the model for training competing systems. Queries suspected of distillation will now be routed to Claude Opus 4.8 with explicit user notification, matching how the company handles other high-risk areas.

2 min readvia theverge.com
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analysisAnthropic

Anthropic reverses stealth policy that secretly downgraded Claude Fable 5 for AI research tasks

Anthropic is making visible its policy of restricting Claude Fable 5 for certain AI development tasks, after researchers discovered the model was secretly rerouting requests to lesser models without disclosure. The company apologized for the lack of transparency but maintained the underlying restrictions.

2 min readvia engadget.com
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product updateAnthropic

Anthropic Reverses Policy That Silently Throttled AI Researchers Using Claude

Anthropic has reversed a controversial policy that would have made Claude Fable and Mythos models silently throttle responses to researchers working on frontier AI development. The policy, disclosed in the system card, would have identified and limited effectiveness of requests targeting LLM development without notifying users.

2 min readvia simonwillison.net
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analysisAnthropic

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 Blocks Basic Biology Questions to Prevent Bioweapon Risks

Anthropic's newly released Claude Fable 5, the company's first public Mythos-class model, refuses to answer basic biology questions including 'what are mitochondria' and 'how mRNA vaccines work.' The company told The Verge the filters are intentionally 'overly conservative' to prevent bioweapon research, blocking 'most queries tied to biology work.'

2 min readvia theverge.com
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model releaseGoogle DeepMind

Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B parameter model generating 15-20 tokens per forward pass via discrete dif

Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, a 26B parameter mixture-of-experts model that generates text using discrete diffusion instead of autoregression. The model processes blocks of 256 tokens in parallel, achieving generation speeds exceeding 1100 tokens per second on H100 GPUs in low-batch settings.