Trump administration orders Anthropic to revoke AI access to SK Telecom over alleged China ties; company shuts down Claude Mythos, Fable 5 models entirely after Amazon flags security vulnerabilities.

The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy

The Trump administration’s move to impose export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter. US officials were concerned about what they alleged were SK Telecom’s ties to China, those people said.Those concerns appear to have compounded when Amazon later flagged vulnerabilities it identified in Fable 5 to the White House. Fable 5...