In high-level talks with the Trump White House, Anthropic has sidelined CEO Dario Amodei and shifted its point of contact to cofounder and Chief Compute Officer Tom Brown. According to multiple people who spoke to WIRED , the discussions concern re-releasing the Claude Fable 5 model, whose access was suspended.
June 2026 · Anthropic ↔ White House
Anthropic Swaps Its Messenger to the White House
As export controls freeze its most powerful models, Anthropic has quietly moved high-stakes talks from CEO Dario Amodei to cofounder Tom Brown — a change White House officials call practical progress while a path to lifting the controls remains undetermined.
Dario → Tom
Point person for talks shifts from CEO to cofounder Tom Brown
Jun 12
Export controls applied after a jailbreak risk was flagged
Jun 26
Deadline set by bipartisan letter to Commerce Dept.
Same base model, two safety profiles
Identical price — the difference is how cyber & biology requests are handled.
Claude Fable 5
Public safety version
Routes cyber & biology requests to a weaker model. Strong in reasoning, agentic work, coding, vision.
Availability: general (later partly restricted)
$10 in / $50 out per M tokens
Claude Mythos 5
Cyber safeguards lifted
SOTA in cybersecurity, biology, healthcare — offered to vetted users only.
Availability: vetted users (limited)
$10 in / $50 out per M tokens
How the standoff unfolded
JUN 9
Fable 5 released to the public
→
JUN 12
Jailbreak risk flagged with NSA input; export controls applied
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JUN 18
Bipartisan letter asks Commerce for criteria & timeline
→
JUN 26
Response deadline; full lifting still unresolved
Softening signals
After the G7 summit, President Trump reportedly said it is "now not a national security threat." Officials view the messenger switch as practical progress.
Unresolved concerns
Experts praise Mythos's vulnerability-discovery but warn its guardrails could be bypassed by skilled users or future models. Benchmarks and proof levels still under debate.
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