The US government has let Anthropic switch Mythos 5 back on, but only for roughly 100 vetted organizations defending critical infrastructure. The public-facing Fable 5 stays offline with no timeline, and the two-week export ban remains in force for everyone else. Critics, including Sam Altman, warn that Washington is now picking which companies get frontier AI—a precedent OpenAI’s own restricted GPT-5.6 rollout mirrors.