Key facts
- Senior Anthropic technical staff are meeting with U.S. Commerce Department officials on Monday.
- The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from using its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
- Anthropic responded by disabling global access to these models.
- The government cited national security concerns and the potential for models to be 'jailbroken' to identify software vulnerabilities.
- More than 80 cybersecurity executives signed an open letter supporting Anthropic and urging the lifting of restrictions.
Senior technical staff from AI company Anthropic are scheduled to meet with U.S. Commerce Department officials on Monday in Washington to resolve a dispute that has led to the company's advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, being taken offline globally. The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to suspend access for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns and the potential for the models to be 'jailbroken' to identify software vulnerabilities.
Anthropic has been in daily virtual discussions with government officials since the Trump administration first contacted the company on Friday. The company stated it would disable access to the models worldwide in response to the government's directive.
More than 80 cybersecurity executives and experts from major firms, including Nvidia and Adobe, signed an open letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, supporting Anthropic's position and asking the Trump administration to lift the restrictions. The Pentagon has designated Anthropic a 'supply chain risk,' impacting defense contracts, though civilian agencies are reportedly interested in the Mythos model for infrastructure assessment.