Anthropic says Trump admin has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Tuesday announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce has lifted the export controls on its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, putting an end to the latest dramatic standoff between the artificial intelligence company and the Trump administration. "We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models," Anthropic said in a post on X . Anthropic disabled access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 earlier this month in order to comply with an export control directive from the government that cited " national security authorities ." The company said it was told to suspend all access "by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees." The government's crackdown on Anthropic coincided with a swift rise in Chinese open-source models that are proving to be almost as capable and significantly cheaper than some of the most powerful U.S. models. With the Trump administration limiting Anthropic's rollout of its latest models, a number of tech executives and investors raised concern that Chinese developers were being gifted valuable time in their effort to catch up. Tuesday's announcement comes just days after U.S. …