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Anthropic Built Mythos. Then the White House Hit Pause.
The White House sidelined Anthropic's new models over security risks, forcing an export ban that now pits the company's safety warnings against its business ambitions.
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Anthropic has warned for years that frontier AI needs guardrails. Last week, those guardrails hit the company's own bottom line.
The White House sidelined Anthropic's newest models over security risks. The clampdown, which BI and Politico detailed over the weekend, forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos for all users on June 12 after an executive order barred foreign entities from accessing them. The models are now locked behind an export ban that Trump officials met with Anthropic on June 15 to discuss resolving.
This is the clearest case yet of the tension at the core of the AI industry. The people most qualified to flag the dangers of advanced AI are also the ones building it. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei published a 19,000-word warning in January about the "serious civilizational challenge" ahead. Four months later, the company was scrambling to contain the fallout when the government took his warnings seriously.