U.S. orders Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally over security fears

Anthropic pulls Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after U.S. export ban The U.S. Commerce Department issued an unprecedented export-control directive barring foreign nationals—including Anthropic's own non-citizen employees—from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The company had to abruptly disable both models for all customers and is working to restore access, saying the order may stem from a misunderstanding over a jailbreak demonstration. 12345

State AGs probe OpenAI, subpoenas demand data on ads, children, sycophancy A coalition of state attorneys general served OpenAI with a subpoena from New York's AG seeking documents on advertising, user engagement, model sycophancy, data handling, and treatment of minors and seniors. OpenAI says it will engage constructively, as the probe follows Florida's separate criminal investigation and a wrongful death lawsuit. 678

OpenAI retires GPT-5.2, silently migrates users to GPT-5.5 OpenAI deprecated GPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking, and Pro on June 12, routing all traffic to corresponding GPT-5.5 models without a public announcement. The swap may alter output behavior, prompting developers to verify their workflows and pin model versions explicitly in production. 9

OpenAI uncovers China-linked influence ops targeting US AI policy debate OpenAI identified two clusters of ChatGPT accounts originating from China that generated social media content attacking US data center buildouts and tariffs. The campaigns tried to manipulate American debate on AI infrastructure and spread false claims of a data breach, but showed no evidence of meaningful impact beyond their own activity. 10