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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.'

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.