The administration says narrow jailbreak tests showed the models can reveal software flaws, so it is vetting users customer by customer while agencies and firms negotiate a permanent release process.
The U.S. government has restricted public access to leading AI models from major companies, requiring case-by-case approval before users can access them. The administration says tests demonstrated that these cutting-edge models can be jailbroken to reveal software vulnerabilities that hostile actors could exploit, prompting the vetting process. Companies warn that this ad-hoc gating disrupts cybersecurity defenders and product rollouts, while industry and agencies work to establish a repeatable framework for future model releases instead of relying on voluntary reviews.

The Trump administration has been increasingly wary about China’s breakneck pace in AI development – with officials warning as recently as recently as April that China was engaged in “industrial-sc…

After weeks of negotiations, the White House permitted Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to a select group of US companies and government agencies.

After a rollercoaster negotiation process with the Trump administration that dragged on for two weeks, Anthropic's Mythos 5 is finally back in action - at least, somewhat, for a select group of organizations, according to a letter from the government to Anthropic that was viewed by The Verge. Fable 5, however - the public-facing Mythos-class model - appears to still be in limbo, with no apparent timeline for a rollout agreement. The letter, dated June 26th and sent by Commerce
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