Anthropic is in active negotiations with the Trump administration to restore international access to its most advanced AI models, after a government directive earlier this month effectively cut the company off from global markets. The dispute has pulled in Nvidia, Adobe, and the US Department of Defense along the way.
How we got here
On June 12 and 13, 2026, the Trump administration directed Anthropic to suspend access to its AI models for foreign nationals. The order came from the US Department of Commerce, driven by national security concerns that had two distinct threads.
The first involved SK Telecom’s alleged connections to China. The second was a reported jailbreak of the guardrails built into Fable 5, attributed to Amazon.
Anthropic complied. The company disabled worldwide access to both Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its two flagship models, effectively locking out every international user and partner overnight.
