Anthropic releases Fable 5 model, built on the same tech that spooked the government

Nbcwashington · Jun 09, 2026 · 649 words · By Jared Perlo; NBC News

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Anthropic released its latest model Tuesday afternoon, heralding the public’s first access to the AI company’s most powerful class of AI systems.

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Anthropic released its latest model Tuesday afternoon, heralding the public’s first access to the AI company’s most powerful class of AI systems.

Why it matters

The company says the model, termed Fable 5, is the first publicly available product in the same family as Anthropic’s powerful Mythos models, which sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity world earlier this year for their superhuman ability to find and…

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Claim 1: “Anthropic has said Fable 5 is being deployed with guardrails that block many of its responses to queries regarding potentially dangerous topics.”

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The web search results provided for this specific claim are irrelevant (discussing Penn State and Haverford College) and do not mention Fable 5's guardrails.

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Claim 2: “Anthropic said it will make Fable 5 available to all users on its Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans at no additional cost until June 22.”

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Corroborated by a Reddit thread and a Medium article, both stating Fable 5 is included for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans at no extra cost until June 22.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)

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Claim 3: “The company says the model, termed Fable 5, is the first publicly available product in the same family as Anthropic’s powerful Mythos models”

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Both the official Anthropic announcement and a Wikipedia entry for 'Claude Mythos' confirm Fable 5 is the first publicly available model in the Mythos family.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos

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Claim 4: “Tuesday’s model release comes one week after President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that aims to establish a new, voluntary mechanism for AI companies to share their systems with the government for safety testing”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding an executive order signed by Donald Trump concerning AI safety testing in June 2026.

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Claim 5: “The company had made Mythos Preview available to over 150 organizations around the world”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the number of organizations that had access to Mythos Preview.

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Claim 6: “Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model... was able to find thousands of critical and severe cyber vulnerabilities, including bugs and exploits in all major operating systems and web browsers.”

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Multiple independent web sources report that the Mythos Preview model identified thousands of critical vulnerabilities in major operating systems and browsers.

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Claim 7: “Anthropic released its latest model Tuesday afternoon”

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Multiple web search results confirm the release of Fable 5 on June 9, 2026, which was a Tuesday.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC[9][10] is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. [11] Its flagship…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/

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Claim 8: “Anthropic also announced that the trusted partners who had previously been able to access Mythos Preview will now be able to access an upgraded Mythos model, called Mythos 5.”

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Confirmed by the official Anthropic announcement and a Wikipedia entry for Claude (AI), stating Mythos 5 was released to partners who had access to the Preview.

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web search NEUTRAL — An additional model named Claude Mythos was released to a handful of companies in 2026. US federal agencies started phasing out the use of Claude after Anthropic refused to remove contractual prohibit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)

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web search NEUTRAL — Mythos-class models are a tier of Claude models that sit above our Opus class in capability. The first, Claude Mythos Preview, was released in April through Project Glasswing. That is followed today b…
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

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web search NEUTRAL — Who has access to the "Mythos Model" Mythos 5?Alongside it, its "twin brother", Claude Mythos 5, also made its debut. It is a version that shares the underlying model but removes restrictions in speci…
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Claim 9: “For those user prompts, Anthropic will steer answers to an earlier, less-powerful model called Opus 4.8 — which was the highest-performing publicly available model until Tuesday.”

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The provided evidence consists of dictionary definitions of 'queries' and unrelated Wikipedia entries; there is no mention of Opus 4.8 or routing logic.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grok is a generative artificial intelligence series of large language models developed by SpaceXAI. It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk as an initiative based on the large language model (LL…
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Claim 10: “After that, users will only be able to access the model by buying and utilizing extra computing credits.”

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The Medium article and Reddit thread both explicitly state that after June 22, Fable 5 moves to a usage credit system.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fable is an upcoming 2027 action role-playing game developed by Playground Games, Eidos-Montréal and published by Xbox Game Studios. Set in the fictional world of Albion, Fable is the first new instal…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fable is a fantasy action role-playing game series originally created by Lionhead Studios and later developed by Playground Games. The franchise is owned and published by Xbox Game Studios. Set in the…
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