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Anthropic to meet with Trump administration over Mythos dispute
Anthropic received an export control directive that ordered the company to suspend access to its latest AI models by any foreign national.
TL;DR
- Anthropic staffers are meeting with Trump administration officials to resolve a dispute over AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
- The U.S. government issued an export control directive citing "national security authorities," ordering Anthropic to suspend access to the models by any foreign national.
- Anthropic disabled access to the models for all customers to comply with the directive.
- This action is the latest in a strained relationship, following a previous conflict where the Department of Defense labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk.
- Anthropic sued the Trump administration to reverse the supply chain risk designation, and that litigation is ongoing.
- The company claims it received prior approval to deploy the models and believes the government's concern stems from a "potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak."
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had previously raised concerns to Trump administration officials about security risks in Anthropic's latest AI models.