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• Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday (@anthropicai)
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• Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work (Anthropic)
| • The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models
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| • US government allows Anthropic to redeploy its Mythos and Fable AI models
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