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Anthropic says it never asked to ban open-weight models, and names what it does want instead News
Anthropic published its position on open weights, rejecting a categorical ban while backing three specific restrictions: chip export controls, action against industrial-scale distillation, and mandatory pre-release safety testing for sufficiently capable models, open or closed.
Lobbying Filings Show Anthropic Named Distillation and Export Controls. OpenAI's Did Not. News
After the New York Times reported that both labs privately pressed Washington over Chinese open-weight models, their own second-quarter lobbying disclosures tell sharply different stories about what each one admits to working on.
Axios: U.S. Officials Revive an Effort to Discourage Chinese Open-Weight AI News
Axios reports that internal U.S. efforts to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models have revived after Kimi's rise, but no ban, rule, or executive order has been announced.
Anthropic switches Fable 5 to usage billing and turns on government ID checks News
Starting today, Anthropic bills its flagship Fable 5 model by usage at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output across all tiers, and its government-ID verification requirement for Fable 5 access takes effect as part of an export-control redeployment.
The US fully lifts its export ban on Anthropic's most powerful models News
Two and a half weeks after restricting Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Washington reversed course completely, ending the licensing requirement to send the models abroad.
The ban on Anthropic's most powerful model just partially lifted -- for Americans only News
About a hundred U.S. institutions regain access to Mythos and Fable, while foreign nationals stay locked out and rival labs rush to fill the gap.
The US government quietly lets Anthropic turn its most powerful model back on News
Two weeks after ordering it switched off, Washington cleared Anthropic's Mythos 5 for release to more than a hundred trusted US institutions, a notable de-escalation.
The US government just banned Anthropic's most powerful AI model News
For the first time, Washington has export-controlled an AI model itself, not the chips it runs on. Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been dark worldwide since June 12, and the trigger involved an NSA test that the internet has badly misread.