The Trump administration has directed Anthropic to restrict access to its most advanced AI models, triggering a swift backlash from experts who are now calling on the White House to reverse course, according to reporting from FOX 17 and Crypto Briefing.
The restrictions appear to cover models including Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, with one report from EIN Presswire asking whether the U.S. government had ordered Anthropic to suspend those systems worldwide. Crypto Briefing confirmed that Anthropic has limited access to the advanced models following the Trump order.
The exact legal or national-security rationale behind the directive has not been spelled out in the available reporting, but the move marks a notable moment of government intervention in the operations of a major American AI company.
Not everyone expects the curbs to last long. According to CNBC, prediction market traders on Kalshi are wagering that Anthropic will restore full access by July 1 — and they believe a quick reversal is more likely than not.
Meanwhile, a coalition of experts is pressing the Trump administration to ease the restrictions, framing the limits as potentially damaging to U.S. competitiveness in a technology race that has become a central economic and geopolitical priority.
The episode matters because it signals that even well-funded, U.S.-based AI labs are not immune to government intervention — and it raises open questions about who ultimately controls access to the most powerful AI systems being built today.