{"id":734522,"date":"2026-06-13T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/734522\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:34:14","slug":"anthropic-says-it-has-taken-its-latest-ai-models-offline-to-comply-with-u-s-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/734522\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic says it has taken its latest AI models offline to comply with U.S. directive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 3 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>AI giant Anthropic said on Friday it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The export controls mark the U.S. government&#8217;s most significant step to date to restrict access to the most advanced AI models. Anthropic released Fable widely this week. That model is a limited version of the even more advanced Mythos, to which the company has tightly limited access due to cybersecurity fears.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Anthropic said it disagrees with the government&#8217;s handling of the matter, saying it received the directive from the U.S. administration on Friday afternoon and that it did not specify the national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;This action does not adhere to those principles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic called it a &#8220;misunderstanding&#8221; and said it hopes to restore access to the models &#8220;as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN | How powerful is Mythos?:<\/p>\n<p>The Current9:44How powerful is Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos?<\/p>\n<p>The Commerce Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The action comes 10 days after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release. Participation by AI developers would be voluntary, the order said.<\/p>\n<p>While debuting Mythos in April, Anthropic said the \u2060model&#8217;s ability to find software flaws at scale could, if misused, pose serious risks to economies, public safety and national security.<\/p>\n<p>That same month, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem told reporters during a call from the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s spring meetings that there had been a fair amount of discussion about the model at the forum.<\/p>\n<p>But Macklem emphasized that Mythos is not a one-off event and that the nature of AI development means firms, regulators and policymakers need to put plans in place to grapple with this rapidly evolving technology.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s Mythos or another AI model, Macklem said, the ability of these new technologies to both expose and exploit vulnerabilities &#8220;puts a premium&#8221; on having strong cybersecurity protections in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-734522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}