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California gives all state agencies access to Claude at 50% off, as Newsom publicly breaks with the federal government's hostile stance toward Anthropic.
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California gives all state agencies access to Claude at 50% off, as Newsom publicly breaks with the federal government's hostile stance toward Anthropic.

The Commerce Department partially lifts its two-week export ban on Anthropic's most powerful model, clearing Mythos 5 for ~100 US companies and agencies while keeping Fable 5 blocked.

Two weeks after the US banned Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 globally, Tokyo's Sakana AI and China's 360 Security have moved to fill the vacuum with frontier-class alternatives.

The intelligence agencies of five allied nations issued a joint statement warning that frontier AI will fundamentally transform offensive cybersecurity within months, not years - and that most organizations are not ready.

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.

The Trump administration is requiring OpenAI to vet every GPT-5.6 customer individually before granting access, citing cybersecurity capabilities that rival Anthropic's restricted Mythos model.

The White House won't lift its ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 until the model can be made jailbreak-proof. Security experts explain why that condition is technically impossible.

New reporting reveals Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged a Fable 5 jailbreak on a routine White House call, triggering a 90-minute ultimatum that shut down Anthropic's two best models worldwide.

At G7 in Evian, Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis pitched world leaders on a US-led international AI governance body, chip trade restrictions on China, and controlled access to frontier models.

Anthropic's first Public Record survey of 51,993 Americans finds 64% fear job displacement, only 15% trust AI companies, and 70%+ support government regulation - with rare bipartisan consensus.

The EU Commission has warned that Washington's Anthropic export ban is discriminatory against allies, as European politicians demand AI sovereignty and Dario Amodei heads to the G7 in France.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick ordered Anthropic to disable its two most powerful models worldwide - the first US export control directive ever issued against a commercial LLM.