Trump admin allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI model to some companies, government agencies: Reports

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNBC

The U.S. government on Friday granted Anthropic permission to release its Mythos 5 model to a group of roughly 100 companies and federal agencies, according to multiple media reports.

The decision marks a major step forward in the negotiations between the Trump administration and the artificial intelligence company, which have been engaged in a two-week-long standoff over its latest models.

“We have worked diligently to ensure America remains the global leader and AI while safeguarding our security,” a Commerce Department spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters and Semafor.

Representatives for Anthropic and the White House didn’t immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/us-government-anthropic-claude-mythos5-ai.html

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A similar announcement was made about OpenAI's newest AI model today, as applegrove posted in GD:

OpenAI Limits AI Model to Trump-Approved Firms
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221331710


I found the CNBC story about Mythos on Reddit's r/ClaudeAI, where there was speculation in the replies about companies possibly getting the more powerful AI models in return for donations, bribes, and - of course - groveling.

[Faux pas]

1. Nobody gets ANYTHING

without the pedo-in-chief getting his cut

[WSHazel]

2. This doom trolling is getting old

Anthropic's and OpenAI's stupid models are not going to end the world, and they are not so good that they need to be reviewed as national security threats. Trump and his friends are insanely long the AI trade, and are inflating the importance of these two companies, which both have a pretty high chance of failing. These stories are really press releases to inflate the value of these two companies and their entire ecosystems in order to push stock prices and raise more money at higher valuations for the two major LLMs and xAI, Musk's steaming pile of garbage. This is a pump and dump.

Predictive models, which are what Anthropic and OpenAI produce, are also not Artificial Intelligence. They are predictive models. This is relatively mature technology that is still very glitchy and simply does not work. I have spent decades in the IT industry, and it is supposed to improve efficiency and accuracy, but the LLM's seem to do the opposite.

[Bobstandard]

3. China is loving this

While Trump hinders the whole US AI industry and puts the thumb on the scales for his favorites, China is rocketing ahead with open source AI instances that are pulling the rug out from under the US frontier companies. Does anyone think that the Trump administration has enough smarts to accurately and quickly deter the ‘safety’ of AI models? Oversight is required but Trump and his minions are bungling it. As expected.

[Matthew28]

4. cool

And if it can be guard railed to be safe then maybe the little guy can get fable so he can compete with these big corporations. You know the thing about closing the gap between the super rich and the little guy we support.

These models belong in the hands of the common man just like the internet does 30 years ago.

The internet isn't going away
and a.i isn't going away

Both are tools and the little guy needs them.

[Karasu]

5. "Ensure America remains the global leader"...fuck this. Fuck the entire AI "race." The only winners are billionaires.

Everyone else loses.