Claude unavailable to foreigners: US orders ban, Anthropic switches models off
The US government demanded that Anthropic cut off foreign users from its two most powerful models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Rather than block access by citizenship, the company simply disabled both models for everyone, Americans included. The shutdown took place on June 12 and reverses the company's policy of open global access.
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The US government has ordered Anthropic to close access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, the company's two most powerful models, to foreign users. Rather than enforce a selective block by citizenship within a shared cloud service, Anthropic disabled the models for the entire world at once.
When was Claude banned for foreigners?
On June 12, 2026, Anthropic deactivated Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 worldwide.
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