{"id":497765,"date":"2026-06-27T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497765\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:51:09","slug":"us-allows-anthropic-to-release-powerful-ai-model-mythos-to-trusted-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497765\/","title":{"rendered":"US allows Anthropic to release powerful AI model Mythos to &#8216;trusted partners&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Shepardson and Chris Thomas, Reuters<\/p>\n<p>The US government on Friday allowed Anthropic to release its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/science-and-technology\/597298\/nz-gets-access-to-hacking-mythos-ai-as-trump-shores-up-national-security-on-ai\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">powerful Claude Mythos 5 AI model<\/a> to some &#8220;trusted partners&#8221;, according to a Commerce Department letter seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The action comes two weeks after the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/598477\/elon-musk-s-ai-tool-grok-was-used-in-strikes-against-iran-us-govt\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordered the AI firm to suspend access<\/a> to some of its models, due to fears they could be deployed by military intelligence users in China, Russia or other countries of concern.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 companies and institutions will now have access to Mythos 5, including many Fortune 500 companies, a source familiar with the new directive said, declining to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic and the White House did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic had abruptly disabled its most advanced AI models &#8211; Mythos 5 and Fable 5 &#8211; for all users after the government&#8217;s export control order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the issuance of my June 12 letter, Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models. These efforts have yielded significant progress,&#8221; US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in the letter to Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p>Lutnick added that an export licence will no longer be needed for the Claude Mythos 5 model for trusted companies and their foreign national employees, or for Anthropic&#8217;s foreign national employees, but restrictions will remain in place for companies that are not on the approved list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In just two weeks, we have worked diligently to ensure America remains the global leader in AI while safeguarding our security,&#8221; a Commerce Department spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter did not mention the status of Fable 5.<\/p>\n<p>The government is moving towards allowing Anthropic to release Fable as well, although a timeline is unclear, the source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By David Shepardson and Chris Thomas, Reuters The US government on Friday allowed Anthropic to release its powerful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-497765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}