US export ban on Anthropic’s AI models further strains alliances | Technology News
US export ban on Anthropic’s AI models further strains alliances | Technology News
Publish Date: 2026-06-19 05:08:00
Source Domain: www.aljazeera.com
Artificial intelligence has become the latest issue to drive a wedge between the United States and its allies after US President Donald Trump ordered tech giant Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its powerful Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models, citing national security concerns.
The US issued the unprecedented order for all foreign nationals in and outside the US last week, promoting Anthropic to take the two AI models completely offline to ensure compliance.
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Anthropic had granted 200 institutions across 15 countries access to their frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, to test for vulnerabilities.
The two public versions of the model, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, were due to be released in early June.
Anthropic said the US government did not provide a reason for the order, but that it was its “understanding” that the Trump administration believed it had become aware of a method of “jailbreaking” Fable 5.
The Trump administration’s ban immediately sent shockwaves across Europe, which is heavily dependent on US-developed AI.
French President Emmanuel Macron told a meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) nations this week that while the Trump administration’s order was a “wake-up call” about the dangers of AI, the limits were a “bad thing”.
“The reaction is in some regards strictly nationalist,” Macron said on Wednesday.
While the US has targeted adversaries like China and Russia with numerous tech restrictions, the Trump administration’s Anthropic order applies equally to allied countries that have intelligence-sharing and mutual defence pacts with Washington.
The decision was a first for the AI industry, but it comes on the heels of other transactional policy moves by the Trump administration.
Over the past 18 months, Trump has launched a global trade war, and threatened to annex Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, and withdraw from the 77-year-old North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) alliance.
He also…
