President Donald Trump said Wednesday that talks between his administration and Anthropic aimed at restoring access to two of the company's most advanced AI models are proceeding well.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that talks between his administration and Anthropic aimed at restoring access to two of the company's most advanced AI models are proceeding well.
Trump made the comments at a Group of Seven summit in France, where he had lunch with world leaders and AI executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, according to The Wall Street Journal. Asked about the state of talks, Trump said: "Going fine, I think it's going fine." He turned to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who echoed: "Going fine."
The administration's ban on foreign access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models prompted the company to shut off access to those models for all customers. Anthropic has said the ban stemmed from a narrow, non-universal jailbreak — a technique involving asking the model to read a specific codebase and identify software flaws. The company said it reviewed what it believes is the report underlying the government's directive and concluded that the level of capability it demonstrated is available from other models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5.
"We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," Anthropic said a statement last week. "If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers."
The seating arrangement in France placed OpenAI's Sam Altman and Google $GOOGL DeepMind's Demis Hassabis directly beside Trump, while Amodei ended up across the table alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, The Journal reports. Further down from Trump sat Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, two of the officials whose actions led to the restrictions on Anthropic's models.
Both technology industry figures and foreign governments grew alarmed by the episode, viewing it as evidence that Washington could act alone to determine who around the world gets access to frontier AI systems.
Anthropic disabled access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the government issued an export control directive prohibiting their use by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. The company said selective compliance would have required blocking a wide swath of users, including its own foreign-born employees. The shutdown came at a sensitive moment for Anthropic, which recently filed a confidential IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosing a revenue run rate of $47 billion and a valuation of $965 billion.