'Way out of line': The US government is being sued for executive order restricting foreign access to Project Glasswing

Date:
Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:50:00 +0000

US government order caused Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users amid security concerns: Legal AI startup Legion LegalTech Corp has filed a lawsuit challenging a June 12 government order that forced Anthropic to restrict access to its most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign citizens (via Reuters ).

According to the complain, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) gave Anthropic around 90 minutes to comply with the order, or face civil and criminal penalties. All foreign nationals, including those living inside and outside of the US, and even Anthropic's own employees, are said to be
affected by the order. Legion
LegalTech Corp acknowledges that the order was triggered because of concerns that users could jailbreak models into reviewing software code and
identifying vulnerabilities, but the startup argues this is a common capability of all frontier models and doesn't just affect Anthropic's models.

The company says it had contractual access to Anthropic's Fable 5 model, and was actively integrating it into its products that draft and manage cases. Because the company employs Canadian developers working remotely from Canada, it lost access to the model once restrictions took effect.

"Anthropic took no independent action to restrict Legions access; it complied with the governments command under threat of enforcement consequences," the lawsuit reads.

The lawsuit argues that no current export control classifications cover
access to cloud-hosted AI models. It also references an independent reviewer, who sees the government's action as disproportionate and "way out of line."

Anthropic announced the frontier models on June 9. By June 12, it had
released a statement in response to the government directive, criticizing the government for "not provid[ing] specific details of its national security concern."

"We are complying with the governments legal directive and are removing
access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users."

Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/way-out-of-line-the-us-government-is-being-sued- for-executive-order-restricting-foreign-access-to-project-glasswing

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