The Trump administration on Tuesday night lifted emergency export controls on Anthropic's most advanced artificial intelligence models, concluding a dispute that had impacted the global technology sector. The decision withdraws a June 12 White House directive that had prohibited all foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 systems.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the policy change, stating that Anthropic has agreed to detect and address security risks associated with its AI models. The company will also work with the U.S. government on protocols for future releases and inform the government of any malicious activity. A license is no longer required for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of the Mythos or Fable models.
Anthropic confirmed the lifting of controls and indicated that access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models would be restored. The government had initially cited concerns that the San Francisco-based startup could not reliably filter out foreign users in real time, leading to the disabling of the software worldwide.
This reversal follows intensive corporate lobbying and negotiations between Anthropic executives and the Commerce Department. Earlier reports indicated that President Trump's stance shifted after a meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the Group of Seven summit in France. The lifting of the controls is expected to provide immediate relief to the broader technology market, where enterprise clients experienced operational disruptions.
White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles stated that under President Trump's leadership, the United States is the leading nation in the AI race and expressed gratitude to companies collaborating on the administration's AI initiatives.
Major corporations utilize Anthropic's models for tasks such as complex data analysis and software coding. The initial ban was reportedly prompted by a classified cybersecurity evaluation where U.S. intelligence agencies identified that the Mythos model could expose vulnerabilities in secure government computer code. This led officials to implement a ban using export laws.
Tech industry advocates had criticized the restriction, arguing that competing models from other companies possessed similar capabilities without facing similar government scrutiny. Anthropic had previously encountered conflict with Washington over defense contracts, having refused to allow military integration of its tools into autonomous weapons systems, a decision that had led to the company being labeled a supply-chain risk by the War Department before a federal judge blocked that designation in March.