
U.S. nears Fable 5 reinstatement as Anthropic and OpenAI push for formal model-review rules
Mythos 5 — Anthropic's variant without added safety restrictions — is already back for select partners; Fable 5's full reinstatement is days away pending Pentagon and NSA sign-off after Commerce Secretary Lutnick confirmed Anthropic 'worked with the US government to address risks.' Both Anthropic and OpenAI are now lobbying for a legally defined review process instead of ad-hoc holds — a signal that case-by-case government gating of frontier models is becoming a friction point the industry intends to resolve through formal rulemaking.
Source: the-decoder.com ↗
worked with the US government to address risks
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in letter to Anthropic
Why this matters
- → Fable 5 reinstatement signals government-AI industry agreement on safety protocols
- → Industry pushes for formal rules to replace ad-hoc model restrictions
- → Competing labs now aligned on standardized review framework
Government gates lifted