Trump's feud with AI company Anthropic keeps heating up

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic and the Trump administration are sparring — yet again.Over the weekend, tensions between the San Francisco company and the Trump administration flared up after the U.S.government ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to the company’s most powerful AI systems.The government’s order poses a challenge to Anthropic’s business and its branding, which focuses heavily on AI safety.

The company said it disabled access to its most advanced models for all its customers to comply with the directive.Customers still have the ability to access other Anthropic models.

Business The release of chatbot Claude propelled Anthropic ahead in the AI race.The company’s annualized revenue soared from $9 billion in 2025 to over $47 billion in May.The unusual move came days after Anthropic released the AI models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

Anthropic limited the release of Mythos 5, which can be used to fix software vulnerabilities, to a “small group of cyberdefenders and infrastructure providers” amid concerns that hackers could exploit the tool to break into computer networks.Fable 5 excels in software engineering, scientific research and other complex tasks, according to the company.Now, Anthropic is facing security concerns around the release of that model.Anthropic is competing with other major tech companies to advance AI.

Anthropic filed to go public and its valuation is nearly $1 trillion, surpassing its rival OpenAI.Here’s what you need to know about the latest high-stakes public spat:Why did the U.S.government order Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its latest AI models?Anthropic said in a blog post on Friday that the government raised national security concerns but didn’t provide details.“Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in the post.

Anthropic said that there are safeguards in place to prev...