Anthropic restoring access to its most powerful AI models signals a necessary truce with the U.S. government

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Credit: Ruhani Kaur—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Anthropic has restored global access to Fable 5, two weeks after the Trump administration slapped export controls on the company’s most powerful AI model, citing security concerns.

The AI company announced Tuesday the controls had been relaxed—a shift also confirmed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who wrote on X the government had spent the past two weeks working with Anthropic to ensure Fable had “alignment” with U.S. interests.