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AI moves fast. A new model is released, a provider changes its terms, a court hands down a ruling — and what was safe to put into a tool yesterday may not be safe today. Whakatūpato flags these developments as they happen: each one dated, sourced, and linked to the tool it affects.

An alert is a heads-up between our full reviews, not a verdict. It never changes a tool’s colour on its own — when a development changes what is safe, we re-review the tool and say so on its profile.

Alert13 June 2026Claude

Fable 5 and Mythos 5: pulled by US government order

On 12 June 2026, three days after releasing it, Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 — together with the research model Mythos 5 — for every user worldwide. It acted to comply with an export-control directive issued that afternoon by the US Commerce Department on national-security grounds. Existing Fable 5 sessions and any new requests now return an error. The established Claude models — Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 4.5 — are unaffected and remain available.

Anthropic says it disagrees with the order, which it traces to "the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak", and that this should not "be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people". It has pledged to work towards restoring access, but has given no date.

For our readers, two things follow. The retention concern we flagged on 11 June is, for the moment, academic: Fable 5 cannot be used, so nothing can be put into it. And our framework — assessed against the established models — is unaffected and stands. If you moved confidential work onto Opus, Sonnet or Haiku on our earlier note, stay there: they remain available, and zero retention on the API and Enterprise is intact.

Access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (statement, 12 June 2026) — Anthropiclive source Perma.cc recordas at 13 June 2026
Anthropic disables access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with government directive — CNBClive source Perma.cc recordas at 13 June 2026

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Alert11 June 2026Claude

Fable 5: a change to data retention

On 9 June 2026 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, with a data-retention requirement specific to this class of model: prompts and outputs are retained for 30 days "for trust and safety purposes", on every platform that offers it, and the requirement overrides zero-data-retention agreements, with no opt-out. Anthropic states the retained data is not used to train models, access by staff is confined and logged, and consumer plans (Free, Pro and Max) are unaffected.

Our framework was assessed against the established Claude models (Opus, Sonnet and Haiku), which continue to support zero retention; it does not apply to Fable 5. In particular, do not read our API and Enterprise assessments across to Fable 5: where confidential or privileged work depends on a zero-retention arrangement, remain on the established models until Fable 5 has been cleared for that use.

Data retention practices for Mythos-class models — Anthropiclive source Perma.cc recordas at 11 June 2026
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 (release announcement, 9 June 2026) — Anthropiclive sourceas at 11 June 2026

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Alerts

Fable 5 and Mythos 5: pulled by US government order

Access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (statement, 12 June 2026) — Anthropiclive source Perma.cc recordas at 13 June 2026

Anthropic disables access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with government directive — CNBClive source Perma.cc recordas at 13 June 2026

Fable 5: a change to data retention

Data retention practices for Mythos-class models — Anthropiclive source Perma.cc recordas at 11 June 2026

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 (release announcement, 9 June 2026) — Anthropiclive sourceas at 11 June 2026