ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France: The Trump administration is open to negotiating with Anthropic over its order barring foreigners from the company’s most powerful artificial intelligence models, The Post has learned.
A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations, suggested a resolution could be worked out directly with the AI giant’s CEO, Dario Amodei.
“We can’t have frontier models running amok,” the source briefed on the matter said.
“It’s all about working things through with Dario.”
The remark is the first indication the administration may view last week’s export-control directive — which forced Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide — as a starting point for talks rather than a permanent restriction.
The controversy between the AI giant and the Trump administration erupted last week when Anthropic said that the Commerce Department ordered it to block access for foreign nationals over national security concerns.
The company disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally because it could not restrict the models to users only in the US.
The US then rebuffed a demand from UK Minister Keir Starmer to seek an exemption for British nationals and companies, the Telegraph reported Monday.
Officials want to focus on forcing Anthropic to make changes to their most advanced models to ensure the technology is safe for all users worldwide.
Anthropic said the government cited a potential “jailbreak” that could let the models identify software vulnerabilities. Officials provided only verbal evidence of a narrow issue, according to the company.
Anthropic rejected the broad action. “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,” the company said in a statement after the measures were slapped on its top-level models.
It called the move a likely misunderstanding and said it is working to restore access.
The shutdown came days after Anthropic released Fable 5, its latest high-capability model.
The company had coordinated with the government on safety measures ahead of the launch.
Tensions between Anthropic and the Trump administration have simmered for months.
Earlier this year, the government placed the company on a supply chain blacklist after Anthropic refused to let the US military use its models for domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Anthropic has warned that similar restrictions, if applied across the industry, would effectively stop new frontier model releases from every major AI developer. Other Anthropic models remain available.
The Post has approached a White House spokesperson and Anthropic for comment.
