TRUMP LIFTS EXPORT BAN ON ANTHROPIC’S MOST POWERFUL AI MODELS, ACCESS RESTORING TODAY For months, Anthropic has been locked out of international markets for its two most powerful AI models. The government required a special export license before Mythos and Fable could be made available to foreign customers, citing concerns about advanced AI capabilities reaching adversaries. As of today, that requirement is gone. The Trump administration dropped the restriction quietly, and Anthropic moved fast. The company began restoring access to Mythos and Fable on July 1, the same day the policy change took effect. Customers in the EU, Asia, and elsewhere who had been waiting are now getting back in. This is not a minor policy tweak. Mythos and Fable sit at the top of Anthropic’s capability stack. These are the models that enterprise clients pay significant sums for, and the ones that compete directly with OpenAI’s most capable offerings. Being barred from exporting them cost Anthropic real money and market position. The reversal fits the broader pattern of the Trump administration loosening the guardrails around frontier AI, preferring American competitiveness over precautionary restrictions. Critics will argue that lifting controls on the most powerful models creates genuine security risks. Supporters will say that if these models are going global anyway, it is better that American companies control the pipeline than their rivals. Either way, Anthropic’s international business just got a lot more open.