Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history

Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes after a week in which the dispute has metastasised from a narrow cybersecurity concern into a full-blown confrontation between Silicon Valley and the Trump administration.

Neither side has commented on expected outcomes. But the behind-the-scenes picture, pieced together from half a dozen media reports over the weekend, is deeply unflattering to everyone involved.

‘They screwed us’

The personal friction is now impossible to ignore. An administration official told Axios on Sunday that “everybody said Anthropic was a bad actor” and that some had pushed to give the company a chance anyway.

“Now those people are questioning that,” the official said. “They screwed us.”

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