The video reports breaking news that Anthropic’s Claude models Fable-5 and Mythos-5 have been abruptly disabled after a US government directive, which reportedly suspends access for foreign nationals (including Anthropic employees), though the creator notes some users still appear to have access and is unsure why. The announcement was received at 5:21 PM ET on June 12 and provided no specific reason, but the creator suggests it may relate to alleged bypass techniques and model use for reading codebases and fixing software flaws. Anthropic says it added strong safeguards with US/UK and third-party help, believes the directive is a misunderstanding, and warns applying this standard broadly could halt frontier model deployments. The creator compares the situation to earlier incidents, notes Opus 4.8 remains available but feels like a step backward, and promotes Agent OS and the AI Profit Boardroom for switching between models and learning AI automation.
00:00 Breaking Shutdown News
00:44 Testing Model Access
00:59 Official Directive Details
01:51 Why It Happened
03:46 Anthropic Safeguards Statement
05:31 Compliance And Disagreement
05:58 Still Available Confusion
06:38 Hands On With Fable 5
07:56 Industry Impact Debate
08:27 Watch For Updates
08:58 Agent OS Promo
09:58 Final Sign Off
Full transcript
Claude Mythos, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 just got shut down peeps if you haven't seen this already it's breaking news and essentially what's happened here is that due to security situations the U.S. government has actually shut down and suspended access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national whether inside the United States or outside including and this is applicable to anthropic employees which is pretty wild right there so what has happened is that Claude have actually pulled Mythos 5 from their model list so if you're using it previously you shouldn't have access to it anymore if you're outside the U.S. so let me give you an example now I seem to still have it when I go over here which is strange let me just test if it works that's going to be strange if it's not working if it is working wow it's still still available which is strange so I don't really understand what's going on but the official statements are that the U.S. government directive has pulled it is shut it down as you can see right here and basically this means that they've abruptly disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone which is pretty wild so what it seems I mean if you have a look here they've not actually said that it's just applicable to certain people they've said that they've disabled it for all all users and people using Claude and Mythos Fable 5 which is pretty wild so they received the notification at 5 21 p.m.
and that is eastern time on June the 12th didn't provide any specific details of why but this is pretty pretty crazy so they believe that the government has been aware of some people like bypassing Fable 5 and they've reviewed demonstrations on this technique being used as well so this is pretty wild and yeah so Star Wars says you know wow maybe someone figured out how to use it in another harness who knows what's going on but that is I mean that's big like that this doesn't happen every day I've I mean I know they had a situation similar to this earlier this year but nothing really happened as a case of that but this is the first time in history I have ever seen this happen and that's big news that is big big news I just opened up Twitter and AI Twitter is exploding with news about this and the effect of it and what's happening here so what this essentially means is that for non-US people they can't access Fable 5 or Mythos but as a result of that I think it's going to be like too hard for Claude to sort of monitor that and figure out okay who's US and who's non-US and so they've just basically pulled it down for everyone which is pretty wild now they said they apologize for the disruption and they believe it's a misunderstanding and they're working to restore it as soon as possible but right now no one can use it no one can use it according to the update but again if I go to Claude here we still got access so I don't know what's going on here whether there's been a new announcement let's just have a look here is anything new just come out or or what's going on here now so this and by the way this was just announced one hour ago you can see the announcement right here one hour ago this came out so pretty crazy times there peeps again never seen that before so let's have a look and see what they're announcing here so they've said Anthropic's posture with respect to Fable safeguards is the following so they've added strong safeguards to Fable so that it can't be used for the wrong stuff in the weeks leading up to this Anthropic actually worked with the US and the UK and multiple private third-party organizations and internal teams to basically add those safeguards and that took like thousands of hours in total of work they've also said these tests showed that Fable safeguards are substantially more effective than those of any previously deployed model no testers have been able to find a way to bypass it yet and they suspect the perfect resistance for this sort of stuff is not currently possible for any model provider so basically what they're saying here is like you know you can't stop this stuff from happening some people will bypass it and that's not possible so that's why they adopted a different strategy with Fable 5 and they stand by that strategy by the way this is the first time I'm reading it this is brand brand brand news we're all learning together here so sorry if I haven't explained it as well as I possibly could do they have not even received a disclosure of a concerning situation as well which is pretty interesting too so literally all they've had is like verbal evidence of something happening which means which essentially consists of asking the model to read a code base and fix software flaws and that one situation was shared with the US but they've also reviewed a report that you can also do the same thing with GPT 5.5 so they're complying with the situation removing access to Fable 5 and Miphos 5 for all users they don't agree with the finding Anthropocasein and also bear in mind this is this is impacting hundreds of millions of people right this is a big big thing this is not just like a one-off and they've already had a similar situation like that but it wasn't the same it wasn't like this this is totally different let's see what's going on here so it's also being removed for Claude devs apparently again let's just have a look here can I access Fable 5 so it is inside my models list here we've got Fable 5 Fable 5 1 million context I'm not going to use it obviously but you know you could I mean to be honest like if you wanted to use it I was running out of tokens so fast it was just like you know what's the point what's the point and there's lots of like you know there's obviously lots of people like showing off what they've built with it uh some interesting stuff let's see if there's any other news on this this is interesting like when are we going to get access to this again you know this might be the last time the first and the last time we got to use Fable 5 it was great I mean to be honest with you it wasn't great at UI it wasn't great at designing UI we created a bunch of stuff with it so if we go over here you can see some examples of what we've built with it inside the AgentOS and it was pretty cool like it generated some nice stuff but it I mean you can see here it's not great at creating user interfaces and coding stuff like that oh there we are let's switch that to Opus 4.8 this is interesting there's a it's cool that a new update where like the letters pop up like this instead yeah so Microsoft are implementing this as well so they've restricted their team from using Cloud 5 but that's temporary they also end in Cloud Code licenses by the way Opus 4.8 is a big step backwards if I say like can you research this for me it just focuses on the Microsoft aspect of it which is not the most important part of this story bear in mind this is this is um this is Claude Miphos level as a model right so if you're using Fable 5 or you were using it before it was Miphos level but we couldn't get access to Miphos which was restricted to only like you know private companies inside Project Glasswing essentially and also you can see here that they said if this standard was applied across the industry the swanthropic saying it would essentially halt all new model developments and deployments for all frontier model providers so their position is nuanced they believe they should have the belief like the US should be able to do this but that this doesn't fit the right use case now bear in mind you can still access Opus 4.8 again I mean just in this single test you can see it's nowhere near as good it feels like a huge step backwards if you're using Opus 4.8 bear in mind this is just breaking news so who knows what's going to be announced next and what happened this I would watch out on the story and pay close attention to it if more stuff comes out I'll share it as well let's see what we got here Rob says he's still using Fable 5 inside the Philippines yeah some people still have access to it by the way uh yeah so thanks so much for watching that is the situation with Anthropic what happened why it happened their stance on it etc if you want to get a full system where it doesn't matter what models are out and which ones aren't you can get the AgentOS and my AI community inside the AI Profitable Boardroom this is basically a system where you can use 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