Anthropic sends staff to DC after model export restrictions

Senior technical staff from Anthropic are in Washington to meet with White House officials after the company pulled its latest AI models Friday in response to an order from the Trump administration.

A source close to Anthropic confirmed to The Hill that top staff are in D.C. and have been meeting virtually with officials daily since the administration first reached out to the company.

Anthropic disabled access to its new Fable and Mythos models Friday after the Trump administration issued an export control directive ordering the firm to block access to foreign nationals.

The order cited national security concerns, which the company attributed to recent worries about a method of bypassing guardrails or “jailbreaking” its Fable model.

It released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 last Tuesday. Fable 5, a “Mythos-class” model, was released to the general public with safeguards meant to block certain capabilities that the company considered potentially dangerous.........

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