The episode reports that U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been lifted, citing a tweet and Anthropic’s official June 30, 2026 announcement that access will begin being restored tomorrow (likely within 24–48 hours). It notes Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s statement about working with Anthropic over two weeks to analyze and approve Fable 5, and mentions a related comment from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The host recaps the timeline: access was cut on June 16 due to flagged security concerns, reports suggested a return by late June, and the White House/Commerce/Anthropic announcements arrived rapidly on July 1. They also comment that there’s no news on GPT 5.6, argue Fable 5 is a major step up from Sonnet 5, and emphasize building resilient “agent operating systems” that can swap models and avoid workflow disruption, promoting the AI Profit Boardroom and its Agent OS, training, and coaching.
00:00 Export Controls Lifted
01:12 Global Access Returns
01:29 Sonnet vs Fable
01:55 Why This Matters
02:30 Official Statements
03:41 How It Unfolded
04:12 Previous Shutdown Timeline
04:54 GPT Updates Check
05:28 Focus on Systems
06:39 Diversify Your Workflow
07:00 Agent OS Pitch
07:37 Join the Community
Full transcript
big news today as the export control on fable 5 and mythos 5 has been lifted you see this tweet by leo right here howard lutnick has officially lifted the export control on anthropix fable 5 happy days my friends so you can see the announcement right here june the 30th 2026 and according to anthropic it should be restored in access tomorrow that means we should all get access to fable 5 again tomorrow or within the next sort of 48 hours i would say so you can see the official announcement from anthropic here they've said we've received notice that the department of commerce has lifted export controls on claude fable 5 and mythos 5 and they've said we'll begin restoring access tomorrow and we'll share an update soon this was just posted like about an hour and 20 minutes ago so it's very very recent news they said we're grateful to our users for their patience and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the model so happy days we are getting fable 5 back and i think that's a move in the right direction it also seems like because the the controls have been lifted i would expect that everyone in the world gets access to that i don't think it's going to be limited to a certain location or just for the us i think that'll be available for everyone around the world which is fantastic news and you know claude have just released sonnet 5 honestly it's a bit of a flat release it's not that great so i think the fable 5 will be a huge step up because if you look at the hierarchy of things you got sonnet 5 down here then you have probably opus 4.8 just above it and and the next version of opus will be even better and then fable 5 of course is coming out as well and i think as well you know when you look at it it's such a relief to know that we're not being gated on access anymore because i think you know a lot of people are worried about there's going to be it's going to be a situation in the future where we don't have access to frontier models where the people who do have access like the tiny 0.01 percent run ahead because they've got access to everything and we don't and there becomes this sort of divide which you know that would have massive consequences across the world so it's a good move in the right direction so let's have a look and see what we got here so this is howard lutnick he said over the past two weeks we have worked closely with anthropic to analyze and approve fable 5 to ensure alignment across the us government and strengthen america's leadership in ai so howard is the one who lifted the export control on fable 5 41st united states secretary of commerce happy days happy days that's what i say so just to be clear here fable 5 should be coming back tomorrow um let's see what else we got here so suzy wiles chief of staff also announced under president trump's leadership the united states is the is the undisputed winner in the ai race and she said my gratitude to companies across the industries who continue to work together blah blah so that's just kind of like a general update i mean make of that what you will and uh yeah it's exciting times good to see that back i think that's a huge relief i'm excited to see it back in terms of what happened you know it came from the white house then commerce secretary then reporters then anthropic all inside like half an hour so like 6 26 a.m this announcement comes out then the commerce secretary mentions about fable 5 out loud so 6 31 a.m my time then a reporter announces the export control has been lifted and then anthropic make it official so in the space of like 20 minutes all of this got announced which is pretty cool now if you want if you want to indicate what happened with the previous timeline when it came to fable 5 so it went dark and then it came back so it got pulled the u.s government flags security concerns for fable 5 mythos 5 and access is cut and that was on the 16th of june and then we're all going back and forth we had an axis and force report that return is on track for fable 5 and could come back this week but the weekend passes with no signature that was the 27th to the 27th uh 29th of june 1st of july white house announces it then commerce approves then we get anthropic saying access is back within 24 hours so happy days there nothing on gpt 5.6 by the way not heard anything about gpt 5.6 coming out or solar lunar or anything like that so that seems to be stuck in preview i mean if you ask me right is gpt 5.6 going to be better than fable 5 i would say no i think you know claude have consistently over the last 12 to 16 months outperformed gpt 5.6 and i think they'll continue uh sorry they've outperformed chat gpt i think that'll continue now the thing that i would say is whenever happens next focus on the system don't worry about the model because you know you've got sonic 5 coming out today you've got fable 5 coming back out tomorrow you'll have something else next month the way that i'm looking at this is we'll get fable 5 back into our agent operating system and we'll probably make that the default cli but whatever happens next focus on the system right and that's why we build our agent operating systems like this with a shared memory and everything else because these models swap and change and summer will be in preview it won't be the first time that a model gets pulled in fact i think that'll be a very consistent theme over the next 12 months and also i don't think it'll be the first time that a frontier model goes into preview and nobody can access it so you know just be prepared for that in the future as well and that's why we build great systems instead of worrying about the models and chasing each model because for most people as well you don't need the frontier models you just need a good system to automate most of what you do so let's see what happens next fable 5 is coming back it's official it was based on a policy but it is a warning that you know any model can vanish overnight so don't put all your workflows into fable 5 again be balanced have great systems diversify and the main thing i would say here is the system wins right one dashboard every model and then you can switch everything around so if you want to get our agent operating system you know fable 5 is one model the agent os is the operating system that runs any of them fable 5 local free all from one dashboard so the analytics like this never stops you you get one dashboard for every model you get every cli plugged in right here you get hermes open claw clawed all plugged into one system with a shared memory and every time a new update comes out for example like today notebook lm just dropped short videos we already plugged that into the agent os so that you can get the most out of these models as well so exciting times for fable 5 hope to see inside the AI Profitable Boardroom we've actually got a lot of training on fable 5 inside the AI Profitable Boardroom 2 if you search the classroom you can see loads of training 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