Anthropic says Trump admin. lifted restrictions on powerful Claude AI models

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said Tuesday the federal government has lifted a set of restrictions on its powerful Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, resolving a weekslong dispute between the Trump administration and the AI company. Anthropic said in a social media post that it will begin restoring access Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote on X that in recent weeks, his team has "worked closely with Anthropic to analyze and approve Fable 5 to ensure alignment across the US Government and strengthen America's leadership in AI." CBS News has reached out to Anthropic and the Commerce Department for additional details. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the public earlier this month, with safeguards the company said would reduce the risk of it being misused for cyberattacks or other nefarious purposes. It said Mythos 5 — a version with fewer guardrails — would initially be made available to a select group of major companies for testing purposes. Just days after Fable 5 was released, Anthropic took it down. The company said the federal government had issued export controls that required it to block access to the model by foreign nationals — a broad order that Anthropic said effectively required it to disable the model. In a statement at the time, Anthropic said the government's concerns appeared to focus on a potential "jailbreak," or a technique for tricking the AI model and bypassing its guardrails. …