Anthropic PBC said on Friday that it had received authorization from the US government to allow a group of American cybersecurity firms to access its artificial intelligence (AI) model Mythos 5.
Access to Mythos 5 had been blocked by US authorities due to concerns about national security.
Anthropic would continue discussions with US President Donald Trump’s administration to “expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available again” to the general public, a company spokesperson said.
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The Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to its Fable 5 model, Axios reported on Saturday, citing a source close to the situation.
Insiders expect the administration’s limits on Fable 5 could be lifted as soon as this week, the report said. Conversations between the parties were expected to continue over the weekend, and Anthropic expects to restore Fable access soon, the report added, citing a second source.
The US Department of Commerce directed Anthropic to cut off access to its two cutting-edge AI models on June 12 after discovering vulnerabilities in the safeguards put in place to prevent misuse of the tool.
The action against Anthropic has drawn accusations of government overreach.
“Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models,” US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said in a letter to the company, cited by Politico and Reuters. “These efforts have yielded significant progress.”
Commerce department spokesperson Benno Kass said “we have worked diligently to ensure America remains the global leader in AI while safeguarding our security.”
Anthropic’s main rival OpenAI launched its new model earlier on Friday, GPT-5.6, with restricted access and validated on a client-by-client basis by the government.
“This isn’t quite the process that we think is optimal,” OpenAI chief Sam Altman said in a social media post. “I believe the government shares most of our goals, and that they are overall doing a good job in a very difficult situation.”
Under pressure over the novelty of their capabilities, Trump earlier this month signed an executive order setting up a voluntary federal review of national security risks in advanced AI models before their release.
The White House has communicated little about how it would enforce its executive order — in which companies are understood to be participating voluntarily — and what models would fall under its review rules.
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