Anthropic’s most advanced public Claude model is returning after a US government directive forced it offline — but the episode raises bigger questions about who controls access to frontier AI.
Anthropic is restoring access to Claude Fable 5 globally on July 1, weeks after a US government directive forced it to pull the model for all users.
Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap with Anthropic’s flagship Opus 4.8, scoring close on key benchmarks while costing significantly less per token.
Anthropic has provided the Californian government with access to Claude, with a 50% discount.
The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s GLM-5.2 AI model can match Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity tasks, signaling a rapidly narrowing AI gap.
Anthropic has restored access to Mythos 5 for a small group of trusted users, while reports suggest Fable 5 could return within days.
Claude Tag is a shared instance launching in Slack to summarize chats and proactively set reminders – more platforms coming soon.
US government order caused Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users amid security concerns.