SK Telecom Named as Trigger of Anthropic Export Ban as Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Stay Offline

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Reporting this week identified SK Telecom — a $100M Anthropic investor — as the Korean carrier whose Claude Mythos access the White House revoked over alleged China ties, days before the June 12 Commerce order pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for all foreign nationals. Anthropic opened its Seoul office anyway on June 17-18 with enterprise deployments at NAVER, Samsung SDS, LG CNS, and Nexon, while June 20 marks the refund cutoff for affected Fable 5 customers. This escalates the earlier export-control dispute from access revocation to a worldwide model suspension affecting paying users.