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Trump Imposes Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos, Fable AI

6/13/2026

Summary

Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump announced export controls barring foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to obtain licenses for any export or transfer.
Anthropic will remove access to both models while disputing that a narrow jailbreak justifies recalling the system.
The move follows broader tightening of export controls on advanced semiconductors and AI hardware amid U.S. competition with China.

History

Historical Context

The United States has long limited strategic computing exports, from the Cold-War CoCom embargo on Soviet supercomputers to the 2022 Bureau of Industry and Security rules that added 28 Chinese firms to the Entity List and required licenses for advanced chips. Howard Lutnick’s recent order for Anthropic follows that lineage, treating AI models as comparable to restricted supercomputers.

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Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump announced export controls barring foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to obtain licenses for any export or transfer.
Anthropic will remove access to both models while disputing that a narrow jailbreak justifies recalling the system.
The move follows broader tightening of export controls on advanced semiconductors and AI hardware amid U.S. competition with China.

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