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🚨 NEWS: Commerce is expected to lift export controls on Fable tonight, a senior White House official tells me.
AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "US Commerce Department will reportedly lift export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 AI model on July 1, 2026"
The Commerce Department move would reverse the June export controls that forced Anthropic to shut down Claude Fable 5 worldwide after launch, restoring the model to general availability without the foreign-national restrictions that had blocked everyone including US users.
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🚨 NEWS: Commerce is expected to lift export controls on Fable tonight, a senior White House official tells me.
Lifting the controls removes the compliance barrier that triggered the global disablement, though the exact rollout timeline and any remaining geographic limits stay unspecified in current reports.
The decision follows partial Mythos 5 relief and mirrors scrutiny on other frontier models, yet no details have emerged on whether this sets a repeatable framework or simply resolves one case.
Many users celebrated the US lifting export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 as enabling wider access and future releases, while others criticized Anthropic's delays and accused the models of sabotaging progress.
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The Department of Commerce may be lifting the Fable restrictions tonight.
🚨 NEWS: Commerce is expected to lift export controls on Fable tonight, a senior White House official tells me.
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
excited to get Fable back in your hands!
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
Fable has been freed. For everyone.
🚨 BREAKING: Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick has officially lifted the export control order on Anthropic's Fable 5
The Fable ban has officially been lifted! Should hopefully be live on Anthropic's APIs and Claude Code soon
🚨 BREAKING: Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick has officially lifted the export control order on Anthropic's Fable 5
🚨 NEWS: Commerce is expected to lift export controls on Fable tonight, a senior White House official tells me.
Politico says that Fable 5 is coming back tonight!
So I was right after all with my guess that Sonnet 5 and Fable 5 would be released at the same time. Politico is one of the most respected publications, so this is a credible source.
Get ready, friends: it’s time to get Fable back!
🚨 NEWS: Commerce is expected to lift export controls on Fable tonight, a senior White House official tells me.

@SophiaCai99 You've had awesome reporting throughout all of this so I'm inclined to trust you here
As promised: now that Fable's back, I'll be sharing an in-depth guide to getting the most out of it, so you can build things as insane as the demos below.
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We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
They're making us wait another day???
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
Hopefully this doesn’t happen again. Excited to see what gpt 5.6 Sol + Fable produces with our MoA!
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
Politico is reporting it will be a general re-release and not limited to America. As I predicted.
The Department of Commerce may be lifting the Fable restrictions tonight.

The plan is to Fable 5 available again to all general users.
Full story here w/@cheyennehaslett :
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/anthropic-wh-lifting-export-limits-00980865
YES!!!
I'm really proud of Anthropic for their successful negotiation with the government.
Also positive update on the government being sane and possible to cooperate with.
Afaik Anthropic didn't need to agree to any bad terms / genuflect / betray their principles or dignity.
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
Crazy how much one tweet dramatically changes how productive I’ll be for the next month
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
Anthropic plans to bring back Fable 5 tomorrow
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
I’ve been waiting for “fable please review my entire project in full, improve everything, make no mistakes”
🚨 NEWS: Commerce is expected to lift export controls on Fable tonight, a senior White House official tells me.
AI winter has been canceled
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
Great news.
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
photo from the most recent Mythos summoning ritual 🦋
Fable has been freed. For everyone.