The Trump administration won’t allow G7 member countries to regain access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models after the US imposed a ban last week over national security concerns, sources told The Post.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer requested a “carve-out” for British nationals and companies to Anthropic’s cutting edge “Mythos” and “Fable” AI models after the US on Friday announced export controls that barred its use by anybody outside the US or foreign nationals.
But issuing any kind of exemption to the export controls to another country — even a G7 ally — would be “completely illogical,” a Trump administration official told The Post.
The insider said the US was working with Anthropic to make sure their models were safe for all users worldwide.
“It’s America making sure the technology is protected,” the source said.
News of Starmer’s request for a carveout was reported earlier by the Telegraph.
White House officials are negotiating with Anthropic over how to resolve the ban, sources told The Post.
A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations, suggested a resolution could be worked out directly with the AI giant’s CEO, Dario Amodei.
“We can’t have frontier models running amok,” the source briefed on the matter said.
“It’s all about working things through with Dario.”
The controversy between the AI giant and the Trump administration erupted last week when Anthropic said that the Commerce Department ordered it to block access outside the US and for foreign nationals over national security concerns.
In response, the company disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally, claiming that it could not restrict the models to users only in the US.
Anthropic said the government cited a potential “jailbreak” that could let the models identify software vulnerabilities, which the company described as “narrow”.
Anthropic rejected the broad action. “We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people,” the company said in a statement after the measures were slapped on its top-level models.
The shutdown came days after Anthropic released Fable 5, its latest high-capability model.
The company said it had coordinated with the government on safety measures ahead of the launch.
Tensions between Anthropic and the Trump administration have simmered for months.
Earlier this year, the government placed the company on a supply chain blacklist after Anthropic refused to let the US military use its models for domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Anthropic has warned that similar restrictions, if applied across the industry, would effectively stop new frontier model releases from every major AI developer. Other Anthropic models remain available.
The Post has approached a White House spokesperson and Anthropic for comment.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/business/trump-admin-open-to-talks-with-anthropic-over-foreigner-ban/
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