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June 9: Anthropic releases Fable 5 model, built on the same tech that spooked the government
Last Tuesday, Anthropic announced the launch of Claude Fable 5, a new “Mythos-class” model that delivers state-of-the-art performance across complex tasks like software engineering, vision, and scientific research. To mitigate the significant risks associated with these advanced capabilities, Fable 5 features conservative safety classifiers that automatically hand off potentially sensitive cybersecurity or biology queries to Claude Opus 4.8. The company also released Mythos 5, a version of Fable 5 with its safeguards lifted, with restricted access available only through Project Glasswing.
June 12: Anthropic disables access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with government directive
On Friday, Anthropic disabled access to its newly released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models following an urgent export control directive from the U.S. government citing national security concerns. The unexpected order required the company to block access to the frontier models for all foreign nationals, forcing Anthropic to pull them for all customers globally to ensure immediate compliance.
June 16: What We’ve Learned about the Suspension of Fable 5
With this latest development in the Anthropic vs. the US government saga, which marks the most severe federal regulatory move in the realm of LLMs to date, we’re still trying to figure out the root cause of this issue and its broader impacts. Here are some news items that fill in more of the story as it’s played out over the past week:
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown: According to this story, Amazon researchers used Fable 5 to “to obtain information that could be used in cyberattacks” and notified the US government of their findings.
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher: A cybersecurity researcher claims that what Amazon researchers found was not a bug but a feature, where a simply prompt of “fix this code” resulted in the model producing scripts for testing certain security patches.
Trump officials meet with Anthropic to discuss a truce: On Monday, Anthropic staff met in person with members of the Trump administration to find a resolution to ease the restriction on Fable 5.
EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision, spokesperson says: Europe losing access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at the hands of a US export control directive is spurring EU leaders “to strengthen its technological sovereignty.”
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Tool of the Week: Apple Image Playground
Apple is rolling out a massive upgrade to its Image Playground app with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, moving beyond basic sketches to offer photorealism, orientation controls, and advanced editing features. The app now closely rivals ChatGPT and Gemini, providing built-in, Photoshop-level edits in seconds for billions of Apple devices. Developers can test the new capabilities in beta now, with public betas arriving in July. Apple plans to launch the full public releases later this year, most likely around September, featuring SynthID watermarks and secure processing via Private Cloud Compute.
AI-generated image of the week
We have soccer fever (or at least AI-simulated soccer fever).
Tool used: ChatGPT
Prompt: Make the two mens' hair and beard the colors of the United States and put them at a World Cup soccer match.What we found
ElevenLabs has struck a deal with Hasbro to add iconic toy and game characters to its Iconic Marketplace, the same library that already includes licensed celebrity voices brands can pay to use commercially. The lineup includes Transformers, Mr. Potato Head, and characters from Monopoly and Clue. Some are live now; Mr. Monopoly and Optimus Prime are coming soon.
