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Trump bans foreign access; Anthropic disables Mythos models.

6/26/2026

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration issued a June 12 export-control order that bars foreign-national access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models.
Anthropic shut down its Mythos-class models two weeks after the order’s deadline.
Cofounder Tom Brown replaced CEO Dario Amodei in talks, with public-policy chief Sarah Heck joining.
Anthropic hoped Mythos token revenue—double Opus 4.8—to fund a $15 billion-per-year SpaceX compute deal and its IPO.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration issued a June 12 export-control order that bars foreign-national access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models.
Anthropic shut down its Mythos-class models two weeks after the order’s deadline.
Cofounder Tom Brown replaced CEO Dario Amodei in talks, with public-policy chief Sarah Heck joining.
Anthropic hoped Mythos token revenue—double Opus 4.8—to fund a $15 billion-per-year SpaceX compute deal and its IPO.