The White House has declared that AI company Anthropic is no longer considered a security threat, according to PYMNTS.com, capping a turbulent stretch for the maker of the Claude chatbot. Techzine Global similarly reports that President Trump now says Anthropic is no longer a security risk.
That reversal followed what Fortune describes as a Trump administration crackdown on the company. In a report titled "The week that changed AI," Fortune says the episode was set in motion by a phone call from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, which it credits with triggering the chaos. Amazon is a major investor in and cloud partner of Anthropic.
The sources here do not spell out exactly what prompted officials to first label Anthropic a threat or what changed their assessment. Running alongside the story, Yellow.com reports that a claim involving an alleged NSA hack, tied to "Mythos," went viral but that security experts are not buying it — a sign of how much unverified information circulated during the week.
Taken together, the coverage paints a picture of a fast-moving political and corporate drama: a leading AI firm publicly cast as a national-security concern by the U.S. government, a high-level intervention from one of its biggest backers, and an official walk-back days later.
The specifics behind the original designation remain murky in these reports, and at least one viral claim from the period is being met with skepticism by experts.
Why it matters: When the U.S. government can brand a top AI developer a security threat and then reverse itself within days, it underscores how unsettled — and how politically charged — the rules governing artificial intelligence have become.