Anthropic asked for regulation. Washington went much further

Anthropic's longstanding push for regulation is coming back to bite it. The artificial intelligence company, now valued at close to $1 trillion, has spent years touting its dedication to safety. But for the second time this year, Anthropic has found itself caught in the Trump administration's crosshairs, this time out of concern for the safety of its newest models. Late Friday, a couple hours after SpaceX wrapped up its first day of trading following a record IPO, Anthropic said it received an export control directive , ordering the company to suspend access to its latest Claude models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 , "by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees." The administration cited "national security authorities" but didn't specify its concern, Anthropic said. The directive landed just days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay advocating for more "serious and binding regulation of AI," including the ability to block models if they are deemed unsafe. "Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety," Amodei wrote. It was the latest public statement from Anthropic encouraging greater government oversight of the rapidly evolving AI industry. …