Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
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Trump told Axios that Anthropic has “behaved very responsibly” and signalled he may ease restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.
President Donald Trump said in a pretaped Axios interview that he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat, marking a sharp reversal from the administration’s aggressive posture toward the AI company over the past three months. Asked whether he considers Anthropic a threat, Trump replied, “Well, not now. But a week ago, maybe.” He added that the company has “behaved very responsibly.”
The comments come just days after the Commerce Department issued a directive on June 12 ordering Anthropic to seek US government approval before foreign nationals access its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, the company’s most powerful AI systems. That order followed months of escalating tension between the administration and Anthropic over the company’s refusal to remove...
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