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The Trump administration weighed export controls on Anthropic weeks before forcing its AI model offline, after a dispute over the company sharing its technology with a suspected China-linked firm. <\/strong><\/p>

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The Claude Mythos logo. (NurPhoto\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Trump administration officials began weighing sanctions on Anthropic weeks before they demanded the company take its latest and most advanced artificial intelligence model offline<\/a>, after a dispute shattered the White House\u2019s already-fragile trust in the company, according to two White House officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations.<\/p>\n

Several weeks ago, Anthropic gave the administration a list of 111 organizations slated to receive advanced access to Mythos, its newest model, one of the officials said. With companies around the world clamoring for the technology after Anthropic warned it could dramatically enhance hackers\u2019 capabilities, officials reviewed the list and signed off.<\/p>\n

But Anthropic later disclosed that the list had ballooned and roughly 50 additional entities had already received access. Senior officials began to consider using export controls to claw back the technology after the company did not identify the new recipients for days.<\/p>\n

When Anthropic finally turned over the names, the administration discovered that one recipient was a South Korean telecommunications company the administration suspected of having ties to China, the officials said.<\/p>\n

Anthropic quickly revoked the firm\u2019s access to Mythos, said a person close to Anthropic, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the deliberations.<\/p>\n

But the episode badly damaged officials\u2019 confidence in the company\u2019s ability to safeguard sensitive technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey expanded it too far and wide,\u201d one of the officials said.<\/p>\n

Officials at the Defense Department, CIA and National Security Agency pushed to move ahead with export controls, but others in the administration cautioned against taking such a drastic step, one official said.<\/p>\n

So when Amazon alerted the administration last week to a security vulnerability in Anthropic\u2019s new model, officials saw it as the latest in a series of lapses. They concluded it was time to ask President Donald Trump to authorize export controls, forcing Anthropic to pull the model just three days after it became widely available to customers.<\/p>\n

The person close to Anthropic said that the Trump administration threatened export controls for the first time on Friday in the wake of the Amazon findings. The company did not withhold the name of a partner with Mythos access and shared it with national security partners, the person added.<\/p>\n

(Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)<\/p>\n

The showdown marks a striking escalation in the Trump administration\u2019s approach to artificial intelligence, after previously pushing a light-touch regulatory approach. By using national security authorities to force a leading U.S. AI company to withdraw a flagship product, the White House has signaled a willingness to intervene directly in the development and distribution of cutting-edge AI models, potentially setting a new precedent for the government\u2019s oversight of the industry\u2019s most powerful systems.<\/p>\n

The dispute has also brought together some administration officials who have spent months battling over the government\u2019s approach to Mythos, uniting them against a common enemy: Anthropic, one of the officials said.<\/p>\n

The White House declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was largely sidelined from the Mythos regulation debate, is also now involved because his department issues export controls, the officials said. He is now presenting himself as Anthropic\u2019s friend advocating to save an innovative American company, one official said.<\/p>\n

The administration wants to lift the sanctions as soon as it\u2019s convinced Anthropic has fully accounted for everyone who received the Mythos product and has strengthened the protections on the Fable project to prevent it from being jailbroken, the official said. The administration has no intention of moving against other products from Anthropic or other AI companies, the person added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey dug their own grave,\u201d the official said, claiming the company had not complied with a voluntary testing regime that had been established through a recent executive order.<\/p>

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The executive order has yet to go fully into effect. Trump signed it on<\/a> June 2 it gave officials 60 days to develop a process for identifying the models that should receive extra scrutiny from the government.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning the administration asked Anthropic to send technical experts to Washington and they didn\u2019t arrive until Sunday night, concerning officials that the company wasn\u2019t treating the situation as an emergency, one of the officials said. <\/b><\/p>\n

Senior technical staff met with administration officials virtually throughout the weekend before their trip to Washington, according to an Anthropic spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity experts, tech executives and some venture capitalists expressed alarm at the government\u2019s intervention, calling on the administration to reverse course in a letter published <\/a>Sunday. They warned that security research should be used to improve products, not to ban them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a speeding ticket, and they gave Fable the death penalty,\u201d Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer of Facebook, said in an interview. Stamos was listed as the first signatory of the letter.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, experts say, the administration\u2019s approach risks undermining the nation\u2019s technological leadership if businesses around the world begin to wonder whether building on top of American AI systems could leave them vulnerable to being left hanging at a moment\u2019s notice if the administration suddenly issues export controls.<\/p>\n

Michael Semick, a tech entrepreneur in Seattle, has been using Fable to help build the software for his new marketing technology startup. The model is expensive to use, but he found it far outperformed Anthropic\u2019s previous models and ones from competing tech companies at certain longer reasoning tasks.<\/p>\n

But now that the tech has been pulled by Anthropic, he\u2019s had to make do with alternatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not going to stop my business but what it will do is slow me down,\u201d Semick said. For the government \u201cto come in and place a restriction on use that basically renders it unusable is disruptive to the entire ecosystem of innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tensions have been growing between Anthropic and some of Trump\u2019s top AI advisers for years. The company has positioned itself as a champion for regulation, and it was supportive of some of the measures the Biden administration took to rein in the AI industry. Several former Biden officials now work for Anthropic.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s approach leaves it philosophically opposed to David Sacks and some of Trump\u2019s other allies in Silicon Valley, who have advocated for an acceleration of AI development. These tensions exploded into public view earlier this year when the company fought <\/a>with the Pentagon over how its technology could be used.<\/p>\n

Sacks, the administration\u2019s former AI and crypto czar, wrote on X that the administration issued the export control \u201creluctantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Admin values Anthropic\u2019s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe ball is in Anthropic\u2019s court.\u201d<\/p>

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