{"id":713633,"date":"2026-06-19T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713633\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:37:10","slug":"us-export-ban-on-anthropics-ai-models-further-strains-alliances-technology-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713633\/","title":{"rendered":"US export ban on Anthropic\u2019s AI models further strains alliances | Technology News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence has become the latest issue to drive a wedge between the United States and its allies after US President Donald Trump ordered tech giant Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its powerful Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models, citing national security concerns.<\/p>\n

The US issued the unprecedented order for all foreign nationals in and outside the US last week, promoting Anthropic to take the two AI models completely offline to ensure compliance.<\/p>\n

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Anthropic had granted 200 institutions across 15 countries access to their frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, to test for vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

The two public versions of the model, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, were due to be released in early June.<\/p>\n

Anthropic said the US government did not provide a reason for the order, but that it was its \u201cunderstanding\u201d that the Trump administration believed it had become aware of a method of \u201cjailbreaking\u201d Fable 5.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s ban immediately sent shockwaves across Europe, which is heavily dependent on US-developed AI.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron told a meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) nations this week that while the Trump administration\u2019s order was a \u201cwake-up call\u201d about the dangers of AI, the limits were a \u201cbad thing\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reaction is in some regards strictly nationalist,\u201d Macron said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

While the US has targeted adversaries like China and Russia with numerous tech restrictions, the Trump administration\u2019s Anthropic order applies equally to allied countries that have intelligence-sharing and mutual defence pacts with Washington.<\/p>\n

The decision was a first for the AI industry, but it comes on the heels of other transactional policy moves by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Over the past 18 months, Trump has launched a global trade war, and threatened to annex Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, and withdraw from the 77-year-old North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) alliance. \u00a0<\/p>\n

He also threatened to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine unless European allies helped reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which was in effect shuttered by Iran after the US and Israel launched their war on the country on February 28.<\/p>\n

\"FrenchFrench President Emmanuel Macron and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attend a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI during the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 17, 2026 [Evelyn Hockstein\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

US allies are now waking up to the realisation that they are \u201cfar too vulnerable now to the US techno-industrial complex,\u201d Dex Hunter-Torricke, president of the Center for Tomorrow, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

Macron also stressed the need for countries to work together on addressing AI issues, warning against the danger posed by \u201cnon-cooperation between democracies\u201d.<\/p>\n

Macron\u2019s remarks were echoed by Thomas Regnier, European Commission spokesperson for tech sovereignty, who told Al Jazeera that addressing security concerns was a \u201cshared challenge, not one confined to a single jurisdiction or country\u201d.<\/p>\n

The solution should also not be \u201cdiscriminatory against partners,\u201d Regnier said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the closed-door meeting, the G7 countries \u2013 the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the US \u2013 discussed a potential \u201ctrusted partner\u201d scheme for access to the most advanced AI models, though few details have been disclosed.<\/p>\n

The US briefly introduced a similar tiered model for the semiconductor chips that power AI in early 2025 during the last weeks of US President Joe Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

Known as the \u201csmall yard, high fence\u201d model in public policy circles, the scheme was intended to keep the most advanced US tech away from the likes of China and Russia, but it also created some \u201cdisquiet\u201d among allies, said David Smith, an expert in US politics and foreign policy at the University of Sydney\u2019s United States Studies Centre.<\/p>\n

The scheme did not restrict allied access to semiconductors, but set out to restrict what they could do with those chips, including in a commercial setting or in their trade dealings with China.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was controversial because of the fact that in the past, when the US has restricted the export of certain technologies, they have always been things with direct military applications,\u201d Smith told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

\u201cRestricting access to advanced chips was very different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheAn NVIDIA logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration taken on August 25, 2025 [Dado Ruvic\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

The scheme was scrapped in May 2025 by the Trump administration \u2013 which later cleared the powerful Nvidia H200 chip for sale to a limited number of Chinese firms.<\/p>\n

The Anthropic ban is, meanwhile, accelerating calls for more self-reliance among US allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation we\u2019re in collectively right now with Mythos and Fable is something that can happen with over-reliance,\u201d Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the media ahead of the G7 summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody has done anything wrong in the situation. But we will have done something wrong if we just accept this, don\u2019t take the lesson, don\u2019t build out and diversify.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruno Retailleau, a former French minister and candidate in the 2027 presidential election, said Anthropic should be a \u201cwake-up call\u201d to Europe that \u201ca nation that depends on others for its technology is a nation that can be unplugged overnight\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must treat AI the way we treated nuclear power: we must think of it as part of our sovereignty. Master it or suffer it: there is no other path,\u201d Retailleau said on X on Saturday, the day after the ban was put in place.<\/p>\n

Tom Tugendhat, a former security minister under Conservative Prime Ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, said the incident was the \u201cinevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot continue like this and remain sovereign,\u201d Tugendhat said on X on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"AnthropicThe Anthropic logo is seen in this illustration taken on May 20, 2024 [File: Dado Ruvic\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

Marcin Jerzewski, head of the Taiwan office of the European Values Center for Security Policy, said that European companies could come out ahead in the Anthropic controversy.<\/p>\n

Prior to the Anthropic ban, German media reported in April that the country\u2019s armed forces would not award contracts to Palantir \u2013 Peter Thiel\u2019s big data analytics company that partners with law enforcement, defence and intelligence agencies \u2013 \u200cciting concerns about granting private industry access to national data systems.<\/p>\n

Germany and France\u2019s domestic spy agencies have also recently partnered with European companies over Palantir so as to avoid becoming too dependent on US technology, according to officials.<\/p>\n

As Anthropic has stoked discussion about the need for AI sovereignty, it has also drawn attention to Paris-based AI startup Mistral, the \u201cEU\u2019s only major homegrown frontier-model competitor\u201d, Jerzewski told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, European governments are growing uneasy about their overreliance on US-controlled technologies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this end, European companies might benefit from the Anthropic incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence has become the latest issue to drive a wedge between the United States and its allies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,103,12,101,1076,594,3,74,1049,21,1209],"class_list":["post-713633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}