Anthropic Extends Claude Fable 5 Access, US Officials Negotiate Restoration via Trusted Partners Framework with Commerce Secretary Lutnick

Anthropic is negotiating with US officials to restore Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after export-control shutdown. Commerce Secretary Lutnick proposed a trusted partners framework for resolution. Anthropic extended Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans through July 19, keeping Claude Code weekly rate limits 50% higher. Claude models are now fully available on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, supporting Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5 with prompt caching and extended thinking. Anthropic is in talks with Meta to lease compute for up to 10 billion over two years. Anthropic valuation surged to 965 billion, surpassing OpenAI, with IPO filing. California signed deal to deploy Claude AI for state government employees.