Trump administration lifts AI export restrictions on Anthropic models
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The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on two of Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence models after the company worked with the Commerce Department on a national security review, according to statements released Tuesday.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) had withdrawn export controls that had previously applied to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 models.
“Bureau of Industry and Security’s evaluation of the diversion risks now presented by Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, the controls in the June 12 letter are withdrawn,” Lutnick said in a post on X. “A license is no longer required for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer, including deemed export or deemed reexport, of the Mythos or Fable models.”
Anthropic confirmed it had received notice that the Commerce Department was lifting the restrictions.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaks during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on January 20, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
“We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5,” the company said in a post on X. “We’ll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.”
The AI company thanked users for their patience during the restrictions and expressed appreciation to those involved in redeploying the models.
“We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models,” Anthropic said.
In a follow-up post on X later Tuesday, Anthropic said it will restore its Fable 5 model with additional cybersecurity safeguards after “productive” discussions with the U.S. government.
“After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we’re redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks,” the AI company said. “In the near term, some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8. We’ll continue to refine these classifiers over the coming weeks to reduce false positives and better distinguish genuine misuse from legitimate requests.”
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The company also said it is working with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other Glasswing partners to develop a framework for assessing AI jailbreaks and determining how developers should respond to them.
Anthropic also shared plans to expand its collaboration with the U.S. government on future model testing and safeguards.
“This will include pre-release access to models and safeguards for evaluation, information sharing on jailbreaks and misuse, and…
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