The Trump administration is imposing export controls on Anthropic's most advanced AI models—Mythos Five and Fable Five—blocking foreign access after security concerns. According to Axios, a jailbreak claim triggered the move, leading Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to send Anthropic a letter requiring licenses for any export, re-export, or domestic transfer of these models, with penalties for non-compliance. The contradiction is sharp: the administration views Anthropic's AI as too dangerous for the Pentagon to deploy, yet too dangerous for anyone outside the U.S. to access. So Anthropic finds itself simultaneously blacklisted domestically and locked down globally. While the administration's broader AI framework remains voluntary, this marks a significant escalation in treating cutting-edge AI systems as national security assets.

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