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Anthropic Restores Claude Fable 5 After US Lifts Export Controls

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Tom's Hardware ·

Anthropic reinstated global access to Claude Fable 5 after the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew export controls. The model now uses a single filter to block prompts that could identify software vulnerabilities and write exploit code. The reversal came just one day after the controls were imposed.

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The quick policy reversal highlights the tension between national security and AI competitiveness, but the new single-filter approach may still raise questions about censorship and model capability.
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Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 as US lifts export controls — single filter now blocks prompt that could identify software vulnerabilities and write code to exploit them →
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