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The White House vs. Anthropic's new AI model - Reason.com Is the Trump administration just hellbent on thwarting Anthropic now? Citing "national security" concerns, it has effectively killed public access to Anthropic's latest artificial intelligence model. The move sure looks like payback for Anthropic's earlier refusal to grant the government the right to use its products for mass surveillance and robot weapons. Antrhopic's newest public-facing model is called Claude Fable 5. Launched on June 9, it was billed as a " safe for general use " version of Claude Mythos 5, Anthropic's powerful new AI model that was released only to "a small group of cyberdefenders and infrastructure providers…in collaboration with the US government." You are reading Sex & Tech , from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth's sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. The White House told Anthropic in a Friday letter that under a new export control directive, Mythos and Fable 5 could not be used by any foreign national in the U.S.—including Anthropic employees here on work visas—or anyone in a foreign country. With no way to immediately comply with that, Anthropic temporarily end…

After losing the White House's trust, Anthropic tries to win it back The Trump administration's ties with AI firm Anthropic are reportedly mending after a significant internal shift in company representation for crucial government discussions. Previously, White House officials found CEO Dario Amodei difficult to engage with, particularly regarding national security. This improved rapport follows a breach of trust where Anthropic granted unapproved foreign entities access to its powerful "Mythos" model, leading to export controls.

Anthropic sends senior staff to Washington as Mythos 5 & Fable 5 ban dispute Anthropic is sending senior technical staff to Washington to meet with White House officials following restrictions on its advanced AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, due to national security concerns. The company is actively engaging in discussions to address these concerns and restore access to its most capable AI systems for users worldwide.

Anthropic Sends Tech Staff To Washington As White House Dispute Over AI ... The meetings come amid growing government scrutiny of advanced AI systems and their potential use in cybersecurity, defense and national security. Unsplash Anthropic has dispatched senior technical staff to Washington as the artificial intelligence company seeks to resolve a dispute with the Trump administration that led to restrictions on its latest AI models and forced the company to disable access worldwide. The meetings come amid growing government scrutiny of advanced AI systems and their potential use in cybersecurity, defense and national security. Senior Anthropic technical staff are in Washington to meet White House officials following administration action against the company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, according to Axios, which first reported the meetings Sunday, citing a source close to the company. Read more OpenAI Reportedly Considering Slashing Prices To Compete With Anthropic Anthropic Research Shows Mythos Model Built Working Exploits For Newly Disclosed Software Flaws In Hours Anthropic CEO Warns that AI May Be Getting Too Advanced for Society's Current Guardrails Anthropic Disables Fa…

The White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 10:19 In theory, Donald Trump has a consistent position on AI. On the first full day of his second term, the president declared that he would use his full authority to speed the AI industry along and, in particular, to beat China in the AI race: “We have an emergency,” he said. “We have to get this stuff built.” If AI is poised to become the most important technology ever made, the thinking goes, whichever country commands the most powerful bots will dominate the rest of the century and beyond. The government, it seemed, would just get out of Silicon Valley’s way. But in practice, the Trump administration’s approach to AI has been much more erratic and confusing. Take last week, when Anthropic released its most advanced AI system yet. Called Fable 5, the model is an updated and public version of Claude Mythos Preview, the highly touted and feared AI model that Anthropic announced in April. Anthropic stated that Mythos Preview was so capable at hacking that only a small group of cybersecurity partners would be allowed to use it. In the subsequent months, the company developed guardrails to prevent…

Anthropic to meet with Trump administration over Mythos dispute - CNBC SeniorAnthropicstaffers are meeting with Trump administration officials in Washington, D.C., on Monday to try to resolve theartificial intelligencecompany's latest high-profile dispute with the U.S. government, according to a source close to the company. The person spoke anonymously to discuss an internal matter. Anthropic received anexport control directiveon Friday that cited "national security authorities" and ordered the company to suspend access to its latest AI models,Fable 5 and Mythos 5, "by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States," according toa statement. The AI startup disabled access to the models for all of its customers in order to ensure compliance with the directive. The unexpected action marks the latest wrinkle in Anthropic's relationship with the government, which has been strained after aclash with the Department of Defenseescalated earlier this year. The DOD labeled Anthropic asupply chain riskin March, which banned defense contractors from using the company's technology because it purportedly threatens U.S. national security. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ad…

Anthropic Races to Lift Fable 5 Export Ban: Top Engineers Sent to ... Anthropic spent the weekend trying to get its most powerful AI models switched back on. The companydispatched senior technical staff to Washington and met with administration officialsin pursuit of a deal to end the export restrictions that forced it to shut down Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide, according to a Wall Street Journal report updated Sunday, June 14. The urgency is its own signal: a frontier lab is now negotiating, in real time and at the highest technical level, for permission to keep selling its best product. On Friday, June 12, the Trump administration invoked national-security export-control authority to bar foreign governments, companies, and individuals from using Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Because the order covered any foreign national, even some foreign-born Anthropic employees, and because the company could not reliably wall those users off in real time,Anthropic disabled both models for everyonein order to comply. Fable 5 had launched only three days earlier as the most capable model Anthropic had ever shipped. That left the company with its flagship offline and a powerful incentive to re…

Why Did Trump Ban Anthropic? The AI Controversy Explained President Donald Trump told all U.S. federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI technology right away on February 27, 2026. This included the popular Claude models. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth then called Anthropic a “supply-chain risk to national security,” a term that has never been used to describe a U.S. company before. This action prevents defence contractors from working with Anthropic and effectively puts the company on a blacklist for most government work. The action isnot a total banon private users across the country, but it is the strongest response from the U.S. government so far against a domestic AI developer. The fight was about a Pentagon contract worth up to $200 million. The Department of Defence wanted “all lawful uses” of Claude, with no exceptions. Anthropic wouldn’t take out two important safety features from its Constitutional AI framework: Dario Amodei, the CEO, said that the models are not yet reliable enough for these high-risk uses. The government acted within hours of Anthropic sticking to its guns after the 5 p.m. deadline. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company hadwon the Pe…

Anthropic Meeting With Trump Admin As Feud Grows Deeper - Forbes Breaking Business Breaking News Anthropic Meeting With Trump Admin As Claude Mythos Tensions Reach Fever Pitch By Zachary Folk , Forbes Staff. I cover breaking news. Follow Author Jun 15, 2026, 02:26pm EDT Topline Anthropic executives are meeting with the Trump administration on Monday, according to multiple reports, just days after an order forced the company to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for public use—the latest escalation in the conflict between the U.S. government and the AI giant reportedly planning an IPO later this year. Days earlier, the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to ban foreign nationals from using its Claude Mythos models. NurPhoto via Getty Images Key Facts Executives at Anthropic are planning to meet with members of the Commerce Department on Monday, multiple outlets reported , although the proceedings are reportedly confidential and it is unclear which Anthropic staffers will take part in the discussions. The meeting comes only three days after the Trump administration issued a directive ordering Anthropic to ban foreign nationals—including foreign nationals who work for the com…

Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5 - WIRED Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Trump administration officials concluded talks with Anthropic on Monday without lifting export controls that were imposed last week on the company’s most advanced AI models in response to jailbreaking concerns, according to three people briefed on the matter. The administration continues to believe that there are ways to disable some of the guardrails on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, effectively allowing users to access the more powerful cybersecurity capabilities of the company’s Mythos model, the people said. Anthropic has said for days that the administration’s concerns are overblown, a position it reiterated in working group meetings held at the Commerce Department with government researchers from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation and the Office of the National Cyber Director, Sean Cairncross, one of the people said. The meetings were also attended by Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, who dialed in by conference call from the G7 summit in Evian, France. Cairncross himself did not participate, the person said. On…

Inside Anthropic's Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 7:10 Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government’s relationship with the AI company Anthropic, its leaders believed that they were still on track for a deal. The Pentagon had unilaterally insisted on renegotiating its contract with Anthropic , the company whose AI model is the only one currently allowed into the federal government’s classified systems, in order to remove ethical restrictions that the company had placed on it. According to a source familiar with the negotiations, on Friday morning, Anthropic received word that Hegseth’s team would make a major concession. The Pentagon had kept trying to leave itself little escape hatches in the agreements that it proposed to Anthropic. It would pledge not to use Anthropic’s AI for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous killing machines, but then qualify those pledges with loophole-y phrases like as appropriate —suggesting that the terms were subject to change, based on the administration’s interpretation of a given situation. Read: What happens to Anthropic now? Anthropic’s team was relieved to hear tha…

Anthropic Flies Staff To Washington To Patch Up White House Dispute Anthropic is scrambling to repair its relationship with the Trump administration after a clash over AI safety concerns led to sweeping restrictions on its most powerful models. Senior technical Anthropic staff are reportedly in Washington to meet with White House officials and try to fix a dispute that has taken the company's top models offline. The fallout stems from safety concerns that resulted in export controls being placed on Anthropic's two frontier models, Mythos and Fable. In-person meetings after initial virtual outreach Anthropic technical staff have held virtual meetings with White House officials since the administration's initial outreach on Friday. Those conversations have now escalated to in-person visits in the capital. Crucially, Axios reports that both sides are eager to resolve the issue, a signal that the diplomatic damage may be containable. Read Also US Orders Anthropic To Restrict Fable 5 And Mythos 5 Access For Foreign Nationals Worldwide Over... Anthropic is mobilizing quickly to make amends with the Trump administration. Having its two most advanced models pulled from availability is no…

Anthropic says Trump admin has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 ... Anthropicsaid on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Commerce has liftedexport controlson itsClaude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, ending the latest dramatic standoff between theartificial intelligencecompany and the Trump administration. "We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models," Anthropic said ina post on X. Anthropicdisabledaccess to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in mid-June in order to comply with an export control directive from the government that cited "national security authorities." The company said it was told to suspend all access "by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees." Fable 5 will again be available to global users on the Claude platform, Claude.AI, and Claude Code starting Wednesday, according to astatementby the company. The AI model will also be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7 for users of the Pro, Max, Team, as well as selected enterprise plans, the company said. Anthropic also said it has restored access to Mythos 5 for…

Anthropic's 3k employees have one question after US 'banned' its most powerful AI models Anthropic's 3,000 employees are still confused nearly a week after the White House gave the company under 90 minutes to pull its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, over vague national security concerns. As The New York Times reported from internal chats, staff suspect they're being targeted rather than reviewed. Triggered by an Amazon paper, the shutdown has left engineers asking whether the Trump administration simply doesn't want Anthropic to exist.