Trump administration eases export controls on Anthropic after cofounde

The Trump administration has agreed to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after high-level negotiations with the Commerce Department. The resolution was detailed in a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to cofounder Tom Brown.

Wired reports that the deal was accelerated by a shift in Anthropic's communication style. CEO Dario Amodei was quietly replaced in White House meetings by cofounder Tom Brown, whom government officials reportedly liked much more on a personal level.

Anthropic changed its strategy from arguing that jailbreaks are technically impossible to stop, to proactively designing new guardrails. The company effectively told the administration what it wanted to hear rather than continuing the theoretical debate.

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and Lutnick led the efforts to resolve the dispute, establishing a new framework where Anthropic will share vulnerability reports and collaborate on pre-release testing with federal agencies.