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The US government has reduced the restrictions it places on the Anthropic version of the super AI, Claude Mythos 5allowing the company to provide access to more than 100 organizations in the United States, including large companies and government agencies.
In a letter sent to Anthropic founder and CEO Tom Brown obtained by WIRED, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the AI lab that it will allow some trusted partners to resume access to Mythos because they “confirmed that security is in place.” First semaphore report on the existence of the letter.
“Anthropic has worked with the US government to address the risks associated with Covered Models. These efforts have been very effective,” wrote Lutnick.
However, the White House stopped short of authorizing the model’s release, and said nothing about the fate of Claude Fable 5, the Mythos version that Anthropic released with more protection. Lutnick said in his letter that all other requirements described in first instructions posted on June 12 still working.
“We received information from the US government that Mythos 5, our most powerful cybersecurity model, could be deployed to a small group of cyber defenders and infrastructure providers,” Anthropic spokesman Eduardo Maia Silva said in a statement to WIRED. “We are working to provide a valid group of service providers and restore their access to Mythos 5 as soon as possible. We are happy to see this progress and continue to work with the government to increase access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 usable again.”
The partial recall comes two weeks after the White House sent it Export control directive to Anthropic which required the company to limit foreign access to Claude Mythos and Fable 5, including workers and residents of the United States. In his latest letter, Lutnick wrote that organizations that agree to use Mythos will now be able to expand access to foreign partners, as well as Anthropic’s foreign employees.
The Trump administration became concerned about Anthropic’s release of Mythos after learning that the company had shared access with a A South Korean telecommunications company is believed to be affiliated with China, WIRED previously reported. After Amazon and the NSA complained that Claude Fable 5, the protected version of Mythos 5, could be broken, the Trump administration decided to take action.
In recent weeks, Anthropic has posted executives from its cybersecurity and AI teams to Washington, DC meeting with Trump Administration officials. In addition to Brown, state law enforcement officer Sarah Heck has also been seated leading company discussions and the US Department of Commerce.
Bringing Mythos 5 online is a good step forward for Anthropic and the White House, but the whole saga has raised questions about the direction of US AI policies, especially how the Trump administration will manage to control the release of future models. Friday, OpenAI announced that it was late the release of its upcoming version of GPT 5.6, in response to the request of the Trump administration.
Dean Ball, head of the strategic future team at OpenAI and a former White House AI advisor, said on June 16. blog writing that Anthropic’s recent negotiations with the Trump administration have revealed AI developers who “want the green light from the government now.”
Anthropic’s battles with the White House have been costly for the young company’s business. It sued the Trump administration earlier this year over threats it received after it tried to redline how military contractors could use its AI models. THE WIRE it has already been said that Anthropic investors worked late last week to find out what the White House’s ban on Claude Fable 5 means for the future of the Anthropic company.
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