Anthropic executives to meet Trump officials to mend ties, CNBC reports

Investing.com -- Senior executives from Anthropic are meeting with Trump administration officials in Washington, D.C., on Monday to address the company's suspension of its latest artificial intelligence models, CNBC reported Monday, citing a source familiar with the matter.

The meeting follows the AI company's receiving an export control directive on Friday that invoked national security authorities and ordered Anthropic to halt access to its newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for any foreign national inside or outside the United States.

Anthropic disabled the models for all customers to comply with the directive.

The action represents the latest tension between Anthropic and the government following an earlier conflict with the Department of Defense. The DOD designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk in March, which prohibited defense contractors from using the company's technology due to alleged national security threats. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commented on the directive in a post on X on Saturday, stating that each day demonstrates why blacklisting Anthropic was "the right move.”

The company launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Tuesday, days before receiving the export control directive. Anthropic worked with government agencies to test the models before release and obtained approval to deploy them, the report said.

Anthropic received no prior communication about a national security threat before the Friday directive, according to the report.

Fable 5 and Mythos 5 expand on Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, a model designed to identify security vulnerabilities in software. The company restricted that rollout to selected companies as part of Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that appeared to gain approval from the Trump administration through several meetings about the model's capabilities.

Anthropic described Fable 5 and Mythos 5 as advanced models that lead many industry benchmarks. Mythos 5 remains limited to selected users, while Fable 5 became available to enterprise customers and paid subscribers. The company said the wider release was enabled by new safeguards that block responses in high-risk areas, including cybersecurity and biology.

In Friday's statement, Anthropic said it believes the government's concern involves a potential narrow jailbreak where a user could bypass a cybersecurity guardrail and ask Fable 5 to read a specific codebase and fix software flaws.

"We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," Anthropic said. "If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers."

Anthropic characterized the dispute as a misunderstanding and said it is working to restore access as soon as possible.

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