Trump administration clears Anthropic to roll out Claude Mythos 5 to over 100 organisations: Report
The US government, led by Donald Trump, has finally allowed Anthropic to offer its Claude Mythos 5 AI model to “trusted partners” in the country, according to a Commerce Department letter seen in various media publications.
According to WIRED, the letter was sent by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic co-founder and chief computer officer Tom Brown. In the letter, he said the United States would allow certain trusted partners access to Mythos because he “determined that appropriate safeguards are in place.”
“Anthropic has worked with the U.S. government to address risks associated with Comprehensive Models. These efforts have resulted in significant progress,” Lutnick was quoted as saying.
More than 100 companies and institutions, including Fortune 500 companies, will now have access to Mythos 5, according to a Reuters report citing sources.
“Since the publication of my June 12 letter, Anthropic has worked with the U.S. government to address risks associated with Comprehensive Models. These efforts have resulted in significant progress,” Lutnick wrote.
Lutnick reportedly wrote in his letter that organizations that approve of using Mythos can also allow their foreign employees to access the model, and Anthropic can do the same for its foreign employees.
Notably, the US government’s decision comes just a day after it was reported that OpenAI had been asked to stagger the release of its upcoming GPT 5.6 model by first submitting it to a shortlist of government-approved partners.
Why was Mythos banned?
The partial lifting of the Mythos ban comes just two weeks after the Trump administration directed Anthropic to limit access to its most powerful AI models over national security concerns.
The US government reportedly issued the export control directive after learning that Anthropic had granted access to Mythos to a South Korean telecommunications company it believed had ties to China. The report also states that Amazon and the US National Security Agency separately expressed concerns that Fable 5 could be jailbroken.
Anthropic has since reportedly sent senior members of its cybersecurity and AI security teams to Washington to get Mythos 5 and Fable 5 back on track.
While Mythos 5 continues to roll out, there’s no news yet on a consumer version of Mythos. The WIRED report notes that Anthropic is still in talks with the White House to restore access to Fable 5, and those discussions are expected to continue over the weekend.
Access to Mythos is being restored
Anthropic confirmed to WIRED that Mythos 5 will once again be made available to a small group of trusted cyber defenders and infrastructure providers.
“We have received notification from the US government that Mythos 5, our most powerful cybersecurity model, may be redeployed to a small group of cyber defenders and infrastructure providers,” Antropik spokesperson Eduardo Maia Silva told the publication.
“We are working to ensure the approved set of providers and restore access to Mythos 5 as quickly as possible. We are pleased to see this progress and continue to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 publicly available again,” Silva added.
