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The US government has lifted its export restrictions on Anthropic’s two most powerful AI models, clearing the company to restore access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after weeks of drama.

Some shit you should know before you dig in: Back on June 12, the US Commerce Department abruptly ordered Anthropic to pull both models, giving the company just 90 minutes to comply and requiring it to block all foreign nationals (including its own employees) from accessing them. According to The Wall Street Journal, the whole thing kicked off after Amazon researchers said they’d found a string of prompts that could coax Fable 5 into spitting out details that might help someone pull off a cyberattack. Reportedly, talks between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and the White House helped push the crackdown along. Fable 5 is a consumer version of the more powerful Mythos 5, built with extra guardrails meant to stop people from twisting it toward harmful uses. The episode was just the latest friction point in a rocky relationship between Anthropic and the Trump administration, which labeled the company a “supply chain risk” earlier this year and got sued over it in a case that’s still ongoing.

What’s going on now: Anthropic said Tuesday evening that Commerce had lifted the export controls and that it would begin restoring access on Wednesday, July 1. The company said Fable would come back for users globally across several of its platforms, with access on Amazon’s AWS and Google Cloud returning “as quickly as possible.” “We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models,” Anthropic said.

In a letter to the company, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic no longer needs an export license after agreeing to “proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models,” to work with the government on protocols for future releases, and to report any “malicious activity” it finds.

Anthropic said it had layered in new technical safeguards to stop people from sneaking past Fable’s cyber protections, and that it hoped the collaboration (along with a proposed framework) could become “the basis for systematic rules for the whole industry.” The feds had already eased up on Mythos the previous Friday, greenlighting it for more than 100 US organizations that guard critical infrastructure.

This all comes as the administration wrestles with how to regulate AI without ceding ground to China.