U.S. lifts ban on Anthropic’s powerful Fable 5 AI model

The government forced Fable 5 offline June 12, citing concerns about cybersecurity. Anthropic said it would come back online starting Wednesday.

The public will once again be able to access Anthropic’s powerful Fable 5 model, the AI giant said Tuesday, weeks after the Commerce Department required it to disable the model over potential security risks.

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Access will be restored to customers beginning Wednesday, Anthropic said.

Fable 5, part of Anthropic’s Claude family of AI systems, was forced offline June 12 alongside its sibling Mythos 5 model after senior administration officials said that the models posed severe cybersecurity risks and that Anthropic’s leadership did not sufficiently recognize their concerns.