Senior Anthropic staff will meet Trump administration officials Monday to address an export control order received Friday that requires blocking foreign access to the firm's newest AI systems over an unspecified national security threat. The action follows the Pentagon's March designation of the company as a supply chain risk and continues amid active litigation seeking to reverse that label.
Monday talks concluded without a deal or resolution; export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain in place, with officials indicating it may take more than a few days to resolve.
Anthropic stated both parties are working quickly to resolve the export restrictions, in its first public comments since the models were pulled; talks also involved National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross.
Anthropic staff held in-person meetings Monday with senior Trump administration officials at the Commerce Department to discuss the export restrictions and potential resolution, the first such sit-downs following the Friday directive.
To comply, the firm immediately cut off every customer from the two releases.
The person added that Anthropic had received no prior warning about any national security concern before the order.
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