Anthropic Leaders Are Reportedly in Washington, D.C. Trying to Resolve Their Latest Issues With the Trump Administration

Oh, how the mighty have landed — in a conference room somewhere in the District, pleading for their models' lives. Anthropic's senior leaders are reportedly in Washington D.C. on Sunday, trying to 'resolve' issues with the Trump administration after a White House export control order forced them to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Because nothing says 'responsible AI' like building frontier models you can't even keep online without a government chaperone.

Now the same administration is flexing its muscles on Anthropic's home turf, and the company's leaders are apparently on a Sunday flight to beg for mercy. The national security rationale is vague enough to cover anything, which is precisely the point.

So here we are: a US AI star reduced to lobbying for permission to run its own software, while China's Zhipu enjoys its JPMorgan bump. The regulatory gap isn't a gap anymore — it's a chasm, and Anthropic is the one being dangled over the edge. All while the rest of us watch the circus, wondering if 'export control' is going to become the new 'you can't sit with us' for frontier labs.