Anthropic to Meet with Trump Officials to Discuss Mythos/Fable Model Deployment

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Anthropic to Meet with Trump Officials to Discuss Mythos/Fable Model Deployment

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June 15, 2026 Disruptive Technology

Anthropic to Meet with Trump Officials to Discuss Mythos/Analysts

Dan Ives Fable Model Deployment

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Dan.Ives@wedbush.com

Steven Wahrhaftig Over Friday, the Trump administration provided an expert control directive that(212) 931-7059

steven.wahrhaftig@wedbush.com cited national security authorities for Anthropic’s leading AI models Fable 5 and

Sam Brandeis Mythos 5 leading to the company disabling access for all customers to ensure

(212) 222-3005 compliance. Anthropic stated that it received an order on Friday evening to suspend

sam.brandeis@wedbush.com all access to the models “by any foreign national whether inside or outside

Anish Jog the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. In response,

(917) 747-3095 members of Anthropic are meeting with officials in DC today to resolve theanish.jog@wedbush.com

most recent dispute with the US Government. This represents the newest hurdleMatthew Ricapito

(929) 259-2049 between Anthropic and the government after the Department of Defense labeled

matthew.ricapito@wedbush.com Anthropic a supply chain risk following the ban on defense contractor use of

Anthropic’s LLMs as it threatened US national security interests. The government

called Anthropic at 1 PM ET on Friday about disabling the Fable 5 and Mythos 5

models due to national security threats with Anthropic receiving a formal letter

to suspend the models at 5:30 PM ET due to an unspecified national security

threat despite working with government officials to test them ahead of the release

with this issuance specifically focused on a new method of bypassing Fable 5

guardrails raising greater national security risks.