Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history
Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history

Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes…

100 cybersecurity experts say banning Fable 5 hurts defenders more than hackers
100 cybersecurity experts say banning Fable 5 hurts defenders more than hackers

Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals have published an open letter demanding the ban be reversed. Their argument is blunt: pulling …

All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House

Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. When they launched on June 9th, Anthropic said “Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any […]

Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI

At Washington’s request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. Abroad, the incident offered a sobering reminder that the US not only dominates frontier […]

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export control restrictions on Anthropic’s models Fable and Mythos, arguing that the order is going to limit the ability of cybersecurity defenders to secure their softw…

Anthropic lawsuit says it oversold the usage on its $200 Claude Max plans
Anthropic lawsuit says it oversold the usage on its $200 Claude Max plans

An Anthropic lawsuit filed in California this week accuses the AI company of overselling its priciest Claude subscriptions. The complaint, brought by Washington, D.C. customer Karl Kahn, claims Anthropic’s “Max 5x” ($100 a month) and “Max 20x” ($200 a …

US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal
US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal

The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone. Anthropic dis…

Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk”
Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 demonstrates the danger of depending on a small number of powerful AI models. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Ireland…

China may have accessed Mythos
China may have accessed Mythos

According to a new report from Semafor, the White House’s decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been accessed by a group linked to China. If the Chinese government actually had access to Mythos 5 or Fable 5, it would present a serious national security […]

Anthropic’s model shutdown just handed India’s sovereign AI movement its strongest argument yet
Anthropic’s model shutdown just handed India’s sovereign AI movement its strongest argument yet

When the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June, the export control directive was aimed at restricting foreign nationals from accessing America’s most capable AI. In India, Anthropic’s second-largest market, it lan…