Anthropic, White House officials expected to discuss AI restrictions after safety concerns

Anthropic staff is expected to meet the White House officials this week.

As reported by Axios, senior technical staff from the artificial inteligence platform Anthropic AI is in Washington to meet with White House officials to try ‌resolving a dispute that has taken the company's most advanced AI models offline, Axios reported on Sunday, citing a source close to the company.

The high-stakes meetings began virtually over the weekend and senior technical staff are already on the ground in Washington, D.C. as of today.

Formal, in-person resolution sessions will continue throughout this week to address the export ban.

Anthropic's technical staff have held virtual meetings with White House officials since the Trump administration's initial outreach on Friday, the report said.

The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block any foreign nationals, whether inside or ‌outside the U.S., from using its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the company said. In response, Anthropic said it would disable access to the models globally.

The San Francisco-based AI startup, which has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, had previously warned about the hacking capabilities of its Mythos model and held it back from wide release.

Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out a public version, called Fable, that included what it described as cybersecurity safeguards.

The news came as the US black listed Anthropic after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warned administration officials that the safety guardrails on Anthropic's new Fable 5 model could be easily bypassed.

Jassy's involvement sheds light on the extraordinary move by Anthropic on Friday to shut down its latest models globally in response to national security orders from President Donald Trump's administration.

The San Francisco-based AI startup, which has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, had ​previously warned about the hacking capabilities of its Mythos model and held it back from wide release, but earlier this week, Anthropic rolled ​out a public version, called Fable, with what it described as cybersecurity safeguards.

Additionally, that brief release ended on Friday. ⁠In a blog post, Anthropic said the U.S. government told the company it believes there is a method of bypassing, or "jailbreaking," a safeguard ​against using the model to find cybersecurity holes.

Notably, the bypass found only "minor" security flaws that other publicly available models can also find, Anthropic said in ​its blog post.