
Anthropic Mythos: US Blocks Powerful AI Access for Foreigners
Thought AI restrictions were easing up? Not for everyone, it seems, especially when Anthropic's most powerful model is involved.
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Thought AI restrictions were easing up? Not for everyone, it seems, especially when Anthropic's most powerful model is involved.

Ever dreamed of an adventure where every choice truly alters the story? Soon, an AI might write your epic saga, live as you play.

Friday night brought an unexpected shutdown: the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to completely block access to two of its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Not just for foreigners — for everyone, everywhere, including Anthropic's own employees.


Claude-Mythos has popped up on GitHub—an unofficial app that takes Anthropic's Claude and supercharges it with roleplay, creative writing, and custom prompts. Built by the community, it runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and gets regular updates because apparently the vanilla Claude wasn't enough for some people.
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Anthropic just made a weird admission: AI is getting too dangerous, so we're releasing an even more powerful model to the public. Meet Claude Fable 5, the first Mythos-class model actually available to everyone—though with some smart guardrails attached.

When you hold a loaded gun, you don't hand it to strangers. Anthropic just put its most powerful AI model in a safety lock, stripping away its ability to mess with computer systems. After months of warning that this exact capability could be a problem, here's how they're trying to have it both ways.
Anthropic built Mythos, an AI so good at finding security holes in software that the company itself said: "Nope, we can't let everyone have this, it's too risky." Except they're rolling it out anyway. Weird flex, right?