Anthropic’s senior technical staff are in Washington, D.C., to meet with White House officials to try and fix a dispute that has taken the company’s top models offline, according to an Axios report which cites a source close to the company. This comes as the company is trying to make amends with the Trump administration, amid sweeping export controls on its most powerful models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5.
While the administration officials claim Anthropic has not engaged in a serious manner, technical staff have held virtual meetings with White House officials since the administration’s initial outreach on Friday, the report said.
On June 12, the Trump administration directed Anthropic to limit access to Mythos 5 and its consumer version, known as Fable 5, to U.S. citizens. This means that even Anthropic employees who are foreign nationals would have been prohibited from using the models. Anthropic chose to remove the models from the market completely.
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Anthropic tightly controlled the release of Mythos which was launched in April. Access was limited to a select group of companies that could use it to plug security holes, in order to ensure the model wouldn’t get into the hands of hackers. Anthropic said Mythos represents a danger to the public because of its ability to find bugs in computer code, which could be exploited by malicious actors.
On June 13, an adviser to President Donald Trump, David Sacks took to X saying the government received a warning that Fable 5 could be jailbroken. He alleged that when the Trump administration notified Anthropic of the jailbreak, Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said the jailbreak was not a serious risk and refused to fix it.
Anthropic released Fable 5 — a version of Mythos with guardrails that prevent its use for cybersecurity purposes — to the public earlier the week. A jailbreak is a way to remove the guardrails of an AI model.
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A person close to the White House said Amazon informed the government about the jailbreak, and that its CEO Andy Jassy had been in contact with members of the administration about it. Sacks claimed the administration reluctantly issued the export controls, which required Anthropic to only allow U.S. citizens access to Mythos and Fable. Those requirements caused Anthropic to revoke access to the models for everyone.
Anthropic and the White House had already been at odds since early 2026. The AI company was initially blacklisted after it refused to allow the U.S. military to use its AI models for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems. In March, the Defense Department designated Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” marking the first time a U.S. company had received a label typically reserved for firms linked to adversarial nations. However, there have been signs of the tensions easing. This comes as Anthropic moves towards an initial public offering.