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The Trump administration’s decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic’s most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon AMZN -1.23%decrease; down pointing triangle Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said.

Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic’s Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid cyberattacks and was supposed to be off limits, Jassy told the officials, according to people familiar with the matter. Tech industry executives have been in regular touch with the administration about the power of cutting-edge AI tools.

Shortly afterward, White House officials held a meeting to discuss how to respond and security researchers began testing Amazon’s claims. The group decided that the most direct way to address that risk was by preventing foreign governments, companies and individuals from accessing the tool, the people said. President Trump later signed off on the action for security reasons despite concerns about hindering innovation, a senior White House official said.

The administration had long felt that Anthropic, one of the leaders in America’s AI race, couldn’t be trusted to manage the security risks its new model presented. Friday’s call between some administration officials and Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei reinforced that feeling, the people said.

Combined with a recent executive order giving security officials more oversight of models, and discussions about the government’s potentially taking equity stakes in AI companies, the moves show a dramatic increase in the control the administration is willing to exert over the industry, some analysts said.

“We are talking about a significant escalation in the politicization of AI and centralization of control over advanced computation in this country,” said Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute think tank focused on technology and innovation.

Shutting down the top models could hold back Anthropic as it prepares for an initial public offering as soon as this fall if users turn to other models. It could also benefit competitors such as OpenAI, which has a powerful cyber model of its own that it is gradually offering to customers and discussing with the Trump administration. 

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June 15, 2026 9:52 pm ET

WASHINGTON—Talks between Anthropic and Trump administration officials continued Monday without a deal to resolve the security concerns that pushed the White House to restrict access to the artificial-intelligence company’s latest model, increasing urgency on both sides to find a resolution.

After the Trump administration said foreign governments, companies and many individuals were prohibited from accessing the model, called Fable 5, on Friday, Anthropic shut down access for all users to comply with the new rule. It did the same for Mythos 5, a more powerful model also covered by the restrictions.

Pulling down the models because of government intervention driven by concerns about the adequacy of safeguards was an unprecedented move for a leading U.S. AI company. The longer the models are offline, the more pressure builds on Anthropic and the White House—which earlier feuded over acceptable military use of AI—to find a compromise.

The latest talks about Fable on Monday included senior Anthropic technical staff and were led by the Commerce Department and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, people familiar with the discussions said.

“This follows numerous virtual meetings we have held with the government since the administration’s initial outreach. Both parties are working quickly to get this resolved,” an Anthropic spokesman said in the company’s first public comments since Friday. “This is part of our ongoing commitment to working alongside the administration toward our shared goal of protecting U.S. critical infrastructure and the U.S. lead in cyber defense.”

Led by Chief Executive Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela, the company’s president, Anthropic prides itself on responsible development of AI. It is one of the few tech companies that has challenged the Trump administration on AI policy. The company was recently valued at $965 billion and is headed toward an initial public offering, increasing the stakes of a delayed shutdown of its latest models.

Some administration officials have said that a resolution should include an acknowledgment on Anthropic’s part that its rollout of Fable and communication with the White House could have been improved, the people familiar with the talks said. Anthropic on Friday said the security vulnerabilities it was informed about seemed relatively simple and that it had worked with the government extensively before releasing it. 

Monday’s talks included top Anthropic security researcher Nicholas Carlini; Logan Graham, who leads the company’s team that evaluates models for risks; and Dave Orr, the company’s head of safeguards.

The White House is under pressure to show it can responsibly oversee the rapidly developing AI industry after oscillating between a hands-off approach and a more security-driven posture in recent weeks. Monday’s talks included a Commerce Department unit in charge of evaluating AI models before they are released, the people said. The unit evaluated Fable before it was released. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wasn’t involved but participated in weekend conversations, they said.

June 17, 2026 11:46 am ET

President Trump said negotiations with Anthropic over restoring access to the company’s latest artificial-intelligence models were “going fine,” comments that came at a Group of Seven summit where some world leaders were concerned about losing access to leading AI tools.

After a lunch with world leaders and AI executives including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters talks between the two sides are continuing nearly a week after they started. Trump said the broader AI meeting went well and touted how much investment AI is driving in the U.S.

“We had a great meeting with AI. We had all the top people here and it was a great meeting,” tardtrump2.png said. “And, as you know, we’re building tremendous numbers of plants, but AI we’re building the biggest, the biggest in the world.”

Asked about talks with the company since then, Trump said: “Going fine, I think it’s going fine.” Trump turned to Lutnick, who said: “Going fine.”

At the lunch, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s DeepMind AI lab, were seated next to Trump. Amodei was seated on the opposite side of the table from the president, next to French President Emmanuel Macron. Down the table were Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who were among the officials that targeted the company’s models last week.