Commerce Department Lifts the Export Controls That Took Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Offline

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Last Week in AI #251 ("Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat," July 9) reports the Commerce Department has lifted the export-control directive that forced Anthropic to disable both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers — Anthropic could not segregate users by nationality in real time, so a foreign-national restriction became a total shutdown. The Rundown independently frames the same week as "Sonnet 5 ships as Washington frees Fable." The precedent is what matters: a US agency demonstrated it can pull a commercial frontier model offline for everyone, and then restore it, on export-control authority.