Trump To Lift Limits On Anthropic’s Fable Model

The Trump administration plans to remove export restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 artificial intelligence model as early as Tuesday evening, two people familiar with the action told POLITICO, a move that would defuse weeks of drama surrounding controls on cutting-edge AI.

The change will enable Anthropic to make Fable 5 available again to all general users, according to a senior White House official and an administration official who were granted anonymity to discuss internal planning.

Fable 5 is a consumer version of Anthropic’s powerful Mythos 5 model, with more safeguards in place to prevent the software from being used to launch cyberattacks. The administration’s restrictions on the availability of both products has caused consternation throughout the AI industry and in Europe, where allied governments have been eager to use Anthropic’s products to find and plug vulnerabilities within their computer networks before adversaries do.

The administration issued export controls on June 12 that prohibited Anthropic from providing access to both Fable and Mythos models, but partially lifted the limits on Mythos late Friday.

Anthropic and the administration had previously discussed conducting a technical assessment to evaluate similar risks posed by models in the future.

The expected loosening of restrictions on Anthropic comes as the administration attempts to strike a balance between lessening the cybersecurity risks of advanced “frontier” models and enabling the AI industry to innovate quickly amid fierce competition from China.

Last week, Anthropic’s top competitor OpenAI also agreed to limit the availability of one of its most advanced models under pressure from the White House, adding to industry anxiety about the administration’s desire to regulate the technology.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.6 model was rolled out to a small group upon request from the White House, the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of the National Cyber Director, despite complaints from CEO Sam Altman that this wasn’t how the company prefers to release its products.

Executives at OpenAI said they hoped a pending executive order designed to evaluate the most advanced AI models would soon establish a process for making these kinds of decisions and quell the Trump administration’s reactive and unpredictable policymaking — a sentiment echoed around the industry.

Aaron Mak contributed to this report.