A source close to Anthropic says senior company members are working to reach an agreement with the Trump Administration in Washington that the White House order effectively took Anthropic’s flagship product offline. According to Axios.
On Friday, Anthropic’s most valuable advanced artificial intelligence models were liquidated by the company after the federal government issued an export control order requiring Anthropic not to allow them to be used by non-US citizens.
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are so-called “Mythos-class” models, meaning they are built on the same core technology as Claude Mythos Preview. infamous model Anthropic announced in April. He argued at the time that the Mythos Preview was too powerful to release due to its high potential for abuse that could jeopardize global cyber security, as well as other supposed threats.
Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the models released on Friday, are meant to be tamed versions of the Mythos Preview, made safe by wide and prominent guardrails. Those models had a short life as publicly available products that lasted from Tuesday to Thursday, available to users with paid Klod accounts — presumably because the federal government was alerted to potential jailbreaks that could allow users to bypass security measures.
What causes teardowns is slowly put back together after the fact. It seems that Amazon was among these companies He drew the White House Note potential security vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Previously Report from Axios claims that on Thursday evening and Friday morning, Amazon and five other companies notified the White House that they had demonstrated their ability to perform the dreaded jailbreak.
According to the appendix An anonymous source report from SemaphoreThe White House was also concerned that “a Chinese-linked group” had gained access to the Mythos-class model (Semaphore notes that Anthropic does not allow access to its AI models from China).
On Friday afternoon, Axios claims Anthropic received a call from the White House telling them that the online storage of Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was an unspecified “national security threat” and that the company had 90 minutes to remove them. It’s unclear what happened over the next few hours, but an export control order was delivered by letter to Anthropic on Friday evening, and the models were offline a few hours later.
Axios’ story on Sunday also says the Trump Administration isn’t happy with Anthropic’s handling of the jailbreak complaint. Anthropic is reportedly “not seriously engaged.”
Sunday is President Trump’s 80th birthday, and it’s a scheduled day UFC match The UFC will be staged on the White House lawn, where the octagon fighting ring is set up.
