Hegseth, White House allies intensify attacks on Anthropic

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a shot at Anthropic on Saturday, after the artificial intelligence company discontinued access to two of its models to comply with a directive from the Trump administration. 

“Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move,” Hegseth wrote on the social platform X.

Earlier this year, Hegseth labeled Anthropic as a supply chain risk and prohibited the use of its Claude AI chat bot within the Pentagon. Anthropic has sued the administration over the designation, which came after the firm’s CEO, Dario Amodei, sought to ensure that the government would not use the tool for fully autonomous lethal weapons or mass domestic surveillance of Americans.

The latest clash between Anthropic and the administration was over the company’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. After the administration issued an export control directive to “suspend all access” to the models by foreign nationals, Anthropic said Friday that it had to disable access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers to comply. 

In a statement, the company noted that it believes that the government issued the order after discovering a method of “bypassing” Fable 5, also known as “jailbreaking.”

Anthropic added, “We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor........

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