AI firm Anthropic has suspended access to its latest AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos, after the Trump administration issued an export control directive. This has, interestingly, led to a surge in the Bittensor (TAO) price, as it makes a case for decentralized AI models.
Anthropic Suspends Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 After Government Directive
In a news release, the AI firm announced that the U.S. government issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside of the United States. “The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance,” the firm said.
This comes just days after Anthropic first released these AI models with certain guardrails following concerns about how powerful the Mythos model was. The firm noted that the government’s letter did not provide specific details of its national security concern.
However, their understanding is that the government believes that it has become aware of a method of bypassing or “jailbreaking” Fable 5. However, the firm downplayed this possibility, noting that they had used this technique to identify minor vulnerabilities and found that other publicly available models could discover them without requiring a bypass.
It is worth noting that U.S. President Donald Trump recently signed an AI executive order aimed at AI security, signaling the government’s intention to gain greater control over AI models it deems a “covered frontier model.” Anthropic said that they are complying with the government’s legal directive, but disagree that such a directive is warranted.
“We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people,” the firm said. They opined that if the government applied such a standard across the industry, it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.
Government’s Move Makes a Case For Crypto
The TAO price has surged as much as 16% today, rising to an intraday high of $248, according to TradingView data. The top AI token is notably up despite the choppy trend in other crypto prices, including Bitcoin.
This comes as the government’s directive to Anthropic appears to have made a case for decentralized AI models. In an X post, Bittensor stakeholder Tao.com said, “We are not building decentralised AI because it sounds better. We are building it because the off switch cannot belong to one hand,” in reference to Anthropic’s announcement.
We are not building decentralised AI because it sounds better.
We are building it because the off switch cannot belong to one hand.
If AI is going to run the economy, you cannot have it gated behind one API, one vendor, one jurisdiction, or one policy mood.
Viva la… https://t.co/pPgcXqyKK0
— TAO.com (@TAO_dot_com) June 13, 2026
They added that AI cannot be gated behind “one API, one vendor, one jurisdiction, or one policy mood” if it is going to run the economy. Commenting on this development, XRP Ledger (XRPL) validator Vet said, “Crypto people know the advantages of open source and not having the vector of government censorship.”
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