White House makes blocking all jailbreaks the bar for restoring Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Trump administration officials told Wired that Anthropic must address the alleged vulnerabilities in Fable 5, the guardrailed version of Mythos 5, before the export controlsExport controlsUS rules restricting which advanced chips, chipmaking tools and model weights can be sold to certain countries, above all China. Administered by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security and enforced through licensing requirements and the Entity List. that took the models offline are lifted. Anthropic has called the concerns overblown and the jailbreak effects minimal, a position it reiterated to the Commerce Department and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross in a Monday technical meeting, while independent cybersecurity experts say preventing all jailbreaks on frontier modelsFrontier AIThe most capable AI models available at a given moment, and the handful of companies that train them. Policy proposals often single out this tier for extra testing, reporting or licensing rules because its capabilities are the least understood. is not possible. Separately, Anthropic employees told the New York Times they feared being singled out, noting that rival firms with comparable models have drawn no similar scrutiny, after the order suspended access to both models for all foreign nationals.